WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:06.040 This is justin for Blood and Dust. I'm presenting this two part series as 2 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:10.839 a little added bonus. I suppose you could say, we're gonna do it 3 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:15.359 in a two part series, and I will say this. We try to 4 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:19.519 keep this show family friendly, and we do that for a reason. We 5 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:26.839 try to appeal to everybody for educational, for historical purposes. This particular series 6 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:31.199 right here has a lot of swearing in it. All right, there's a 7 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:35.359 lot of four letter words. So if you have a problem with that, 8 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:40.119 please turn it off right now now. If you want to know about the 9 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:46.799 real Doc Holiday, I highly suggest you tune in, because you are really 10 00:00:46.880 --> 00:01:19.439 going to love this. I found him a loyal friend and good company. 11 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:25.760 He was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler, a gentleman whom disease 12 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:30.480 had made a vagabond, a philosopher whom life had made, a caustic wit, 13 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.840 a long, lean, blonde fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at 14 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:42.799 the same time the most skillful gambler and nervoust speediest, deadliest man with his 15 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:49.040 six gun I ever knew Wyat speaking of Doc Holiday, who was this man 16 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:53.359 who could joke in the face of death, who actually asked his opponent to 17 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:57.760 shoot him. Doc Holiday was one whiskey soaked bullet spitting so on a thunder 18 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:02.519 whose only saving grace was that he assuming dead. John Henry Holiday was born 19 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:07.599 August fourteenth, eighteen fifty one, in Griffin, Georgia. He was born 20 00:02:07.639 --> 00:02:13.479 to a pretty well to do, an upper middle class family of English and 21 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:19.039 Scottish descent. He was baptized March twenty first, eighteen fifty two, in 22 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:24.360 First Presbyterian Church of Griffin. His older sister did die in infancy. Her 23 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:30.479 name was Martha Eleanora, which would have been the year before Doc was actually 24 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:34.479 born. So when Doc was born, he ended up being the only child 25 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:40.560 and his family was very just extremely happy. But Doc was born with pretty 26 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:45.199 good birth defect. He was born with a cleft palate and a cleft lip, 27 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.680 so he actually had to be fed from an eye dropper and a little 28 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:54.840 tiny cup. His uncle, John Styles Holiday ended up doing the surgery to 29 00:02:55.159 --> 00:03:00.479 correct it because he was a doctor. But he did suffer for a little 30 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:04.039 bit of a speech impediment, you know, his southern drawl was said to 31 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:09.560 be a little bit off, and his you know, mother kind of really 32 00:03:09.639 --> 00:03:14.199 was very protective of him, because back then, you know, something like 33 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.439 that was seen as like bad breeding. I guess you could say. I 34 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:22.599 mean, he ended up doing pretty well for himself. He had a very 35 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:27.800 notable family tree as well. Not to go off on a side tangent here, 36 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:34.000 but I mean his doctor uncle John Styles Holiday, he built a Greek 37 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:38.759 Revival house in eighteen fifty five in Fayette County, which is now a local 38 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:43.759 museum. He had one relative, also named John Holliday, who is the 39 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:47.840 founder of Holiday, Utah. He just happened to be a Mormon, which 40 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:52.319 you know, to each their own, but he was part of the group 41 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:58.159 that settled and ended up founding what is now known as San Bernardino, California 42 00:03:58.199 --> 00:04:01.240 as well. So that's a pretty interesting little fact. Yeah, Doc ended 43 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:06.439 up growing up pretty good. His mother would give him speech therapy. She 44 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:11.719 was very protective of him. Like I had mentioned, she was worried about 45 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:15.919 society, the community, you know, thinking down on their family, you 46 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:18.199 know, thinking down of John. And that was their only child, so 47 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:21.160 you know, she made it a point to work with him very, very 48 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:27.920 hard. She taught him how to play piano by the you know, as 49 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:30.560 soon as he could reach the keys. She was given him piano lessons. 50 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:35.120 So young John Henry Holiday, who would later become known as Doc, was 51 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:41.240 a very good piano player as well. In his older years, he was 52 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:45.560 described as being five foot ten inches tall, one hundred and forty pounds, 53 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:49.480 and contrary to popular belief, he did not have dark hair. He had 54 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:55.199 ash blonde hair, which is what Wyatt Earp described him ask and Virgil Earp's 55 00:04:55.279 --> 00:05:00.879 wife, who was Wyatt's brother. His wife Ali described him as having platinum 56 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:04.959 blonde, which was pretty cool. Little fact I didn't know. He did 57 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:11.759 sport that very thick famous mustache. Most historians agree that the reason that he 58 00:05:11.879 --> 00:05:15.519 did sport that mustache is because of you know, to hide the scar from 59 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:19.439 his cleft lip. So there was that a little bit about his family. 60 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:26.680 His father was Henry Burrows Holiday. He was born in South Carolina. Now 61 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:31.199 his dad probably had every fucking job under the sun. He was a businessman. 62 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:34.920 He was a clerk of the county court. He was a pharmacist, 63 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:41.120 a lawyer. He was a sycamore tree planner who had like a tree nursery 64 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:47.839 as well. He was responsible for introducing the pekin industry to Georgia. He 65 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:55.279 could participated in the Cherokee Indian War in eighteen thirty eight. He was promoted 66 00:05:55.319 --> 00:05:59.399 to a major in the Mexican War in eighteen forty six. When he did 67 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:04.279 return for the Mexican War, though he actually adopted and brought home a young 68 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:11.319 Mexican boy who had been orphaned by the war. His name was Francisco Hidalgo. 69 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:16.360 Now Francisco is credited with teaching Doc how to use guns and knives at 70 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:19.199 a very young age. Like, for those of you who don't know, 71 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:24.720 Doc Holliday was very good with a set of knives. Francisco. You know, 72 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:29.040 there's not much known about his history before Georgia, or even after Georgia 73 00:06:29.079 --> 00:06:33.160 for that matter. But he ended up dying of tuberculosis in eighteen sixty six, 74 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:39.160 and then his father after that ended up serving in the Civil War. 75 00:06:39.240 --> 00:06:44.600 In eighteen sixty one, he was a major in the twenty seventh Georgia Infantry 76 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:48.879 and then after that he went on to be mayor of Valdosta, Georgia for 77 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:54.199 two terms. I did read in a couple of places that he had served 78 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:58.240 several back to back terms. The only thing that I could find in that 79 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:02.160 most historians can also find is just two terms, one from eighteen seventy two 80 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:08.399 to eighteen seventy three, the other one from eighteen seventy six to eighteen seventy 81 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:15.000 seven. His mother was Alice Jane McKee. She was also born in South 82 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:20.399 Carolina. She was, you know, her family were from Scotland. Now, 83 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:25.160 like I had mentioned previously, she was very very protective. She was 84 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.199 giving him speech therapy. She helped him, you know, learn how to 85 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:32.160 talk. She was very very adamant about that. And she had taught him 86 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:36.560 piano from the time he could reach the keys, which is seriously cool. 87 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:41.879 They were all about being, you know, Southern gentleman. But Doc was 88 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:45.680 a pretty hot tempered dude. I mean, you're gonna find out here, 89 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:47.439 you know, we're going to separate the fact from fiction. Don't get me 90 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:50.959 wrong, but Doc had a little bit of a temper on him. By 91 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:56.680 eighteen sixty four, the family is moving around a lot, mostly because of 92 00:07:56.680 --> 00:08:03.319 Sherman's March to the Sea. While General Sherman is marching his troops through Georgia 93 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:07.240 to the east, the holiday families trying to avoid being in the path and 94 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:13.360 basically getting their ship burned down and pillaged. Because that's pretty much what Sherman's 95 00:08:13.399 --> 00:08:18.000 men did. I'm actually pretty knowledgeable about Sherman's March to the Sea because I 96 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:22.680 personally have an ancestor, my great great great grandfather on my father's side, 97 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:28.600 served in the Civil War and was with Sherman on his march to the Sea. 98 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:31.720 So, you know, it's really interesting if you get looking into that 99 00:08:31.799 --> 00:08:35.159 kind of thing. But like I said, that's on a whole other tangent. 100 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:41.080 They ended up in Bamis, Georgia. I don't know if it's Bemis 101 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:46.399 or Bamis, which is about seven miles outside of Valdosta. Now, they 102 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:52.480 ended up up settling in Valdosta on some land that was given to Henry Holiday 103 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:56.919 for his part serving in the Civil War, and this would be in right 104 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:03.080 around in eighteen sixty four. Now, shortly after they get to Valdosta, 105 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:09.360 his mom, Alice, starts showing symptoms and she starts losing weight, starts 106 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:13.480 having night fevers, a lot of coughing, and come to find out, 107 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:18.600 ended up being a consumption also known as tuberculosis. For those of you, 108 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:24.120 I know, I've talked about consumption before, and I know a lot of 109 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:28.279 people outside of the US aren't familiar with it consumption was tuberculosis, and basically 110 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:33.919 it was called consumption because you know, originally they had thought that it consumed 111 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:37.279 the body from within. Here's a fact for you. One out of every 112 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:43.159 five deaths in the USA from the year eighteen hundred to eighteen seventy was because 113 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:48.799 of tuberculosis. Now, some of the stages. There were three stages. 114 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:52.000 The one stage. The first one was you kind of had like a dry 115 00:09:52.120 --> 00:09:56.720 cough, you know, you had a pain in the chest and shoulders, 116 00:09:56.759 --> 00:10:01.000 and you would lose a little bit of weight. The second stage was coughing 117 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:09.360 up mucus and sometimes blood. And the third stage was you would literally just 118 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:15.000 be wrecked by this disease. I mean you would get skeleton skinny, and 119 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:20.360 it seriously was a slow and very painful death. Now, you know, 120 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:26.399 she ended up dying on September sixteenth, eighteen sixty six. But the whole 121 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:30.080 two years that she's dying of this, John is taking care of her. 122 00:10:30.519 --> 00:10:33.879 That's a hell of a thing for a thirteen fourteen, fifteen year old boy 123 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:37.480 to go through. He was literally an only child. His mother took care 124 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:41.440 of him. You know, it's just really really sad, To be perfectly 125 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:46.200 honest, with you now. While his mom is dying, and even shortly 126 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:48.320 after her death, he did to have a lot of family around. He 127 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:52.840 had huge family. Like I had said, they're very notable. They were. 128 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:56.159 Most of them were within about the fifty mile range. One place he 129 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:01.200 would often go is his uncle John's house, his uncle John styles holiday. 130 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:07.000 Now, while he was over there, there was a woman named Sophie Walton. 131 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:11.159 She was a young mulatto woman. She was the retainer of the household. 132 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:13.720 I'm not gonna lie to you. Retainer of the household is pretty much 133 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:20.679 a fancy word for a fucking slave. So she's over there and she would 134 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:22.840 always look out, you know, watch the kids play with them and stuff 135 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:28.360 like that. And she is credited with being the person who taught Doc how 136 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:33.159 to play cards. She taught a lot of games, but Sophie taught young 137 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:37.399 John and all of his cousins this game called Skinning. Now, the original 138 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:43.399 rules of this card game, Skinning were pretty much adapted by Pharaoh. As 139 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.639 you go to listen on, you know, you'll come to find out that 140 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:52.000 Pharaoh is a very prominent card game. Later on in Doc's life, like 141 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:56.600 I had mentioned, on September sixteenth, eighteen sixty six, when Doc was 142 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:01.399 fifteen. His mom does die. When this happens, Doc just starts. 143 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:05.840 He throws himself into school. He needs something to do to take his mind 144 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:09.200 off. He took care of her for two years while she was dying. 145 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:13.399 He watched her die. So he starts going to school, starts, you 146 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:18.759 know, doing that because before he was homeschooled by his mom. But on 147 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:22.679 December eighteenth, just a few months after his mom dies, his dad, 148 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:28.279 Henry remarries a woman named Rachel Martin. She was the daughter of a judge 149 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:31.879 who was the neighbor. She was very young, she was only a few 150 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:37.960 years older than Doc. Now, this pissed Doc off, and it could 151 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:43.840 have possibly strained the relationship between him and his father going forward. It was 152 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:48.720 tradition to have like a one year grieving period. Oh, Henry was right 153 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:52.240 back in the saddle. He didn't really waste any time, you know. 154 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:56.519 And like I said, like Doc saw this as like disrespect to his mom. 155 00:12:56.720 --> 00:13:01.080 So it really strained their relationship. So now he even does anything to 156 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:05.240 try to get away from the house as much as he can, and he 157 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:11.840 starts going to school at a place called the Valdosta institute and what he learned 158 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:16.360 there were, you know, subjects like rhetoric, grammar, history, math. 159 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:18.559 Doc was said to be a very very good at math. He was 160 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:22.000 very good with the numbers. But he also learned languages. He could speak 161 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:26.039 Latin, French, in Ancient Greek. All his peers said he was an 162 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:31.039 extremely bright guy, and he excelled at school. He is super smart. 163 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:35.840 Now, in eighteen seventy, when Doc was nineteen, he goes to the 164 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:41.120 dental school in Philadelphia. So on March first, eighteen seventy two, Doc, 165 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:46.559 at the age of twenty becomes a doctor of dental surgery. And he 166 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:50.960 actually wrote his thesis on diseases of the teeth, and he gets a degree 167 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:56.360 from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, which is currently known as you know, 168 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:01.120 the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. It's like a little department 169 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:07.360 of that. He actually graduated five months before his twenty first birthday, so 170 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:11.159 the school held his degree. You weren't allowed to practice dentistry until you were 171 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:15.320 twenty one. So, like I had said, Doc was a pretty smart 172 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:16.960 guy. And I mean, don't get me wrong, not gonna lie. 173 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:22.279 Probably didn't take much to be a dentist back in the mid to late eighteen 174 00:14:22.399 --> 00:14:26.159 hundreds. But still, I'm not going to take anything away from him because 175 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:31.120 literally everybody that had anything to say about him being in school said he was 176 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:35.679 exceptionally bright. So what he's doing while he's waiting for his degree is he 177 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:41.840 goes to Saint Louis, Missouri, and he becomes an assistant for a classmate 178 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:46.200 that he had by the name of A Jamison Fuchias Junior. I don't know 179 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:50.759 if his last name is Fuchias or Fuchs. It's fuc h e s. 180 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:56.399 But you know, obviously there's no pronunciations on that, so I'll just say 181 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:58.840 it all different ways so I don't fuck anybody over on their name, you 182 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:03.600 know. So the end of July eighteen seventy two, he ends up going 183 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:09.879 to Atlanta and he joins the dental practice of Arthur C. Ford, and 184 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:13.639 he's pretty much waiting until he turns twenty one so he can open up his 185 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:18.519 own practice. What he's doing is he's waiting and he's trying to gain clientele 186 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:24.120 while working with Arthur Ford. He's also living with his uncle and his family 187 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:28.080 right there, so you know, it's kind of a nice little situation he's 188 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:31.519 got. Now, Arthur c. Ford ends up going to a meeting out 189 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:35.840 of town and reports that Doc is going to sub in his place. In 190 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:41.480 the Atlanta Constitution. On July twenty six, eighteen seventy two, he pretty 191 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:46.879 much ran the following thing. Quote, I hereby inform my patients that I 192 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:50.960 have to attend the session of the Southern Dental Association in Richmond, Virginia, 193 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:56.720 and will be absent until about the middle of August, during which time doctor 194 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:03.080 John h. Holiday will fill my place in my office, twenty six Whitehall 195 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:07.519 Street, Arthur c fourd DDA end quote. Now around this time, there 196 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:15.799 are a couple significant events that happened, one of which not much Unlike Jesse 197 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:22.000 James, Doc Holliday was more than likely a cousin fucker as well. You 198 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:27.080 know, this wasn't uncommon. It was kind of acceptable in the you know, 199 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:32.639 nineteenth century. It is what it is. It's kind of fucked up, 200 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:37.039 but it's whatever. Like it happened because you know, to keep property 201 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:41.120 within the family and money within the family and shit like that. I mean, 202 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:45.000 look at royalty in Europe. I mean they were literally fucking their own 203 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:51.879 cousins all the time and shit. So, but he supposedly had a little 204 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:56.200 bit of a romance with in his teens with his cousin Martha Anne Holiday. 205 00:16:56.279 --> 00:17:02.279 She was known as Maddie. She was the daughter of his uncle, Robert 206 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:07.960 Kennedy Holiday. Now apparently this little romance sparks up again. Now the family 207 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:14.160 even today will acknowledge that there was more than likely some sort of romance there. 208 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.960 You know, some historians will argue that it was just a really good 209 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:22.039 friendship. I'm kind of gonna go with the family on that one, because 210 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:26.200 if the family's going to go ahead and admit this, it's probably fucking true. 211 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:30.759 All right. So they ended up having like a pretty good love affair 212 00:17:32.200 --> 00:17:37.079 from all my understanding, kind of creeped out saying that. But a little 213 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:40.960 bit about Maddie, you know, after Doc ends up leaving, which we'll 214 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:45.160 get to here in a minute, she joined a convent. She joined the 215 00:17:45.319 --> 00:17:49.559 Order of the Sisters of Mercy. She became Sister Mary Melanie. A little 216 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:56.880 cool thing about her was she was the inspiration for Miss Melanie and Gone with 217 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:02.119 the Wind. Philip Fitzgerald, okay, which was an uncle in law of 218 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:08.559 Robert Kennedy Holiday. He was the great grandfather of Margaret Mitchell, who wrote 219 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:14.240 Gone with the Wind. Of the eight children born to Robert Kennedy Holiday and 220 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:18.599 his wife, one was Martha and Maddie Holiday, which was sister Mary Melanie, 221 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:23.000 so miss Melanie ties in. But yeah, that's kind of a cool 222 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:29.839 little fact. Their romance was. It was it was not looked at very 223 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:37.200 highly in their family because Maddie was Catholic and one of the rules of I 224 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:40.279 should you not. I can't even make this up. One of the rules 225 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:45.319 of the Catholic families at this time was that you could not marry in the 226 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:48.920 first degree. And what that meant was you can't marry a first cousin. 227 00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:55.119 You can't have kids with a first cousin. You were allowed to marry and 228 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:59.680 have kids in the second and third degree, which was which meant you know, 229 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:03.039 you could you can fuck all the second and third cousins you want, 230 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:07.599 like that's no big deal, but not a first cousin. That's strictly forbidden. 231 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:14.440 So their family was very, very against their relationship and it did strain 232 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:19.359 it supposedly from all I understood now, I will say this doc would always 233 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:25.160 speak so highly of Maddie. I know it's fucked up that you know it's 234 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:30.680 his first cousin, but this was truly the woman that he loved and he 235 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:36.160 would always love until the day he died. She ended up dying in nineteen 236 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:41.960 thirty nine in the convent, and they kept correspondence letters. They corresponded like 237 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:45.759 the entire life up until his death. As a matter of fact, like 238 00:19:45.799 --> 00:19:52.480 when he died, she was the person that they contacted to inform the rest 239 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:57.640 of the family. And when she ended up dying, she had previously destroyed 240 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:03.920 like a lot of the letters after Doc died because she didn't want to ruin 241 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:08.960 his reputation or make the world think differently of him, because he did have 242 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:14.319 a reputation by the time he died. He had a crazy ass reputation, 243 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:18.039 as you're going to come to find out. But you know, after Maddie 244 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:23.519 ended up dying, her younger sister actually got the rest of the letters and 245 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:30.240 burned those two. She burned everything. She did keep the personal effects because 246 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:33.720 after Doc died, she Maddie was the one who got sent all his personal 247 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:40.839 effects along with the other half of the correspondence letters. So when Maddie ended 248 00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:45.200 up dying, her younger sister literally destroyed all the fucking letters. And it 249 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:51.440 is stated by family even today that the reason she did that was because if 250 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:56.640 the world had read those letters, they would have known a different Doc Holiday. 251 00:20:56.119 --> 00:21:00.640 So it is really interesting to know what was in those letters, you 252 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:03.359 know what I mean. But you know, that's how it goes. Sometimes 253 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:07.440 that's history, you know, it's solid speculation. Now there is another incident 254 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:12.160 that happens around this area that is still kind of debated. I like to 255 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:18.359 believe the family's version of this, and not just because it's the better version, 256 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:22.480 because it's the one that makes more sense. Basically, it's referred to 257 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:26.319 as the swimming hole incident. Now, one version of the story goes, 258 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:30.079 and this version comes from bat Masterson. Okay, Now, bat Masterson was 259 00:21:30.119 --> 00:21:34.880 a famous lawman, just like Wyat eerb bat Masterson wrote a bunch of articles, 260 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:37.759 did interviews, you know, wrote a bunch of memoirs in nineteen oh 261 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:42.160 seven where he talks about Doc Holiday and he talks about this incident. But 262 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:48.000 it should be known that bat Masterson was not a big fan of Doc Holiday. 263 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:52.079 He pretty much tolerated him because he was best friends with Wyat eerb and 264 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:56.240 we'll get to that story of how that all happened here in a little bit 265 00:21:56.279 --> 00:22:02.000 too. But he's not a big fan. He talks very badly about Doc 266 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:07.680 Holliday a lot. So it's hard to take into consideration, you know the 267 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:11.359 fact that somebody who has so much contempt for you writing about you, Yeah, 268 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:15.839 they're probably going to stretch the truth. I mean, bad Masterson was 269 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:19.559 known for stretching the truth anyway about himself, let alone Doc Holliday. So 270 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:26.920 his version of the story is that Doc had told him okay, and Doc 271 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:30.079 was known to embellish, not gonna lie. Doc was known to embellish, 272 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:34.960 but he told him that. You know, right around this time period, 273 00:22:36.359 --> 00:22:40.880 him and some buddies went down to their favorite swimming hole and there was a 274 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:45.240 group of African Americans. They're swimming in their spot. Well, Doc Holliday 275 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:48.119 confronted them and said, hey, you know, why don't you guys get 276 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:52.720 the hell out of here? And then one of them snapped back and said, 277 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:56.839 this river's wide enough, why don't you go somewhere else. Now, 278 00:22:56.880 --> 00:22:59.160 you got to remember, you know, this is after the Civil War. 279 00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:03.079 There's still a lot of tension right there. So Doc Holliday says, I'm 280 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:07.880 going to get my gun. You guys better be gone when I get back. 281 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:12.599 So he goes, comes back double barreled shotgun, and supposedly he had 282 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:17.359 he kind of got them to where they were in a group together and fired 283 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:21.640 off rounds out of the double barreled killing anywhere from one to three of them. 284 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:26.160 This, unfortunately, more than likely did not happen. The actual story 285 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:33.599 from family members and also other contemporaries is that he was down there with his 286 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:37.759 uncle and they were swimming and they did have, you know, a little 287 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:42.599 situation with some African Americans down there swimming in their spot. So his uncle 288 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:48.480 hands him an eighteen fifty one Cult revolver, which ended up being a gun 289 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:52.160 that Doc Holliday ended up keeping. His uncle told him, you know, 290 00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:56.000 fire above their heads, just scare him. And when he did that, 291 00:23:56.200 --> 00:24:00.920 you know, supposedly one of them shot back, but they did leave and 292 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:03.400 then that was the end of the situation. You know, it's hard telling. 293 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:07.359 There were no newspaper accounts of this ever even happening. Even if he 294 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:11.759 would have killed somebody, I'm not saying that because it was after the Civil 295 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:17.279 War, because they were African Americans that it wouldn't have been reported on, 296 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:21.720 but it's hard telling what happened right there. Personally, I believe the family 297 00:24:21.799 --> 00:24:25.240 side of the story just because it's more specific. It makes more sense, 298 00:24:25.799 --> 00:24:30.640 and that eighteen fifty one cult revolver is something that Doc did end up carrying 299 00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:33.319 until about the late eighteen seventies. That was his gun of choice. So 300 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:40.079 now by eighteen seventy three, Doc does have a successful practice only for a 301 00:24:40.119 --> 00:24:45.960 couple months. Doc finds out that he has tuberculosis. He starts showing the 302 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:48.480 symptoms. He more than likely got it from his mom when he was taking 303 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:52.920 care of her when she was dying. He goes and gets several opinions, 304 00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:59.480 and all of them said the same exact thing. At the age of twenty 305 00:24:59.480 --> 00:25:04.039 two years years old, John Henry Holiday is given no more than six months 306 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:07.400 to live. Now, they said, if he goes and he moves to 307 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:14.160 a drier climate, he could possibly extend his life by about two years max. 308 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:18.839 So in September in eighteen seventy three, Doc, at the age of 309 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:26.079 twenty two, leaves for Dallas. Now this is when Maddie Holiday goes and 310 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:33.400 joins the convent. Some people say that she would never love another man, 311 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:38.680 so she decides to never, you know, engage with another man. Some 312 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:45.319 other contemporaries think that her family was ashamed of the affair that she had with 313 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:49.920 her first cousin, so they forced her into the convent. I personally don't 314 00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:53.640 believe that, because even though this was the eighteen hundreds, you were still 315 00:25:55.119 --> 00:25:57.960 pretty much allowed to make your own decisions in your early twenties. And I 316 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:03.240 mean, don't get me wrong. They came from a prominent family who probably 317 00:26:03.319 --> 00:26:07.039 did tell their kids what to do and they followed suit. But anyway you 318 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:11.440 look at it, this is when Maddie joins a convent and Doc leaves for 319 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:15.720 Dallas. And the reason he goes to Dallas is because that was literally, 320 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:18.440 at this time, the end of the fucking railroad to the South, and 321 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:26.359 Dallas was like the last civilized part of the American West before you start getting 322 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:33.000 into the untamed frontier part of it. So he heads there. He opens 323 00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:37.720 up a dental practice with a friend of his dad's name, John A seeger 324 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:41.640 Doc Holliday, who's actually not known as Dick until about eighteen seventy eight, 325 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:47.440 but John Henry Holiday, he was a fucking really good dentist man like. 326 00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:52.559 He won awards for dental work at the annual Fair of the North Texas Agricultural, 327 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:59.279 Mechanical and Bloodstock Association. At the Dallas County Fair, he won prizes 328 00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:04.559 for best set of artificial teeth in dentalware and also an award for best gold 329 00:27:04.599 --> 00:27:10.279 teeth, Like can you imagine Doc Holidays out there making gold grills? Man? 330 00:27:10.559 --> 00:27:12.079 I don't know why, but I think that's just pretty cool. He 331 00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:18.319 also won an award for best teeth and Vulcanized Rubber, which isn't at all 332 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:23.200 what it sounds like now. The prizes for these were a nice plate and 333 00:27:23.359 --> 00:27:27.960 five dollars for each display, which eighteen seventy three man that what really wasn't 334 00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:33.240 that bad? But moving forward. On March second, eighteen seventy four, 335 00:27:33.319 --> 00:27:40.680 the Dallas Daily Commercial reported quote, upon mutual consent, the firm of Seeger 336 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:45.000 and Holliday has dissolved. JH. Holliday will be responsible for the two debts 337 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:52.039 against the firm. JA Seegar will remain at the old office over Cochrane's drug 338 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:57.039 Store, Elm Street. JH. Holliday's office is over the Dallas County Bank 339 00:27:57.240 --> 00:28:02.400 corner of Maine and Lamar Street end quote. Pretty much what was going on 340 00:28:02.599 --> 00:28:07.640 was their business started falling through. Like he was losing a lot of clientele. 341 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:11.920 He was coughing at the wrong times because he had just found out he 342 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:17.079 had tuberculosis, not you know, long before this, you know, he'd 343 00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:21.680 be doing feelings and extractions and be coughing on people. So, like, 344 00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:26.599 his business gradually declined because people were fucking freaked out. They didn't want to 345 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:30.920 get consumption or TV. So he started losing, you know, a lot 346 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:34.880 of his clientele. It is around this time that Doc starts turning to gambling. 347 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:40.359 He starts going into the nightlife. Now, since he was taught that 348 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:44.279 card game when he was a kid. The popular game at the time was 349 00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:49.240 Pharaoh. So he's going around gambling and he's really good with numbers because he 350 00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:55.200 was very good at math, and he's very good at shuffling cards and just 351 00:28:55.559 --> 00:29:00.559 card games and gambling in general. So he starts leaning towards this for his 352 00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:06.000 main means of support, to support himself because he has really nothing else now. 353 00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:11.079 Because of this, he also starts honing his skills with the knives and 354 00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:15.200 the guns he had to protect himself as a gambler in the West, not 355 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:19.079 only because he was sick, but he was also small and weak. You 356 00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:23.519 know, he wasn't a very big dude, hundred and thirty pounds at about 357 00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:27.359 this time, and you know, the West was a rough place for a 358 00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:33.039 guy who leaned on gambling as a profession. So he starts getting really really 359 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:37.920 efficient with the guns and knives, and his pistol of choice at this time 360 00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:44.000 was a nickel plated Colt Revolver double action self cocker, and it was a 361 00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:48.440 thirty eight caliber Lightning with a three and a half inch barrel. He would 362 00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:55.240 later go on to have a forty one caliber Thunderer made by Colt as well. 363 00:29:55.559 --> 00:29:59.799 But the reason that he chose the Lightning with the three and a half 364 00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:03.079 inch barrel and thirty eight caliber was because it was a lighter pistol. It 365 00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:07.920 had a shorter barrel, it had a smaller grip, It was a lot 366 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:11.119 more easy to maneuver for him, for a guy with a smaller frame who 367 00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:15.839 was kind of weak, So it just kind of fit really really perfect. 368 00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:21.279 Now. The first time Doc runs into a little bit of trouble was in 369 00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:26.319 late eighteen seventy four. He is indicted with twelve others on gambling charges, 370 00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:32.960 but not only that. On January second, eighteen seventy five, not long 371 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:37.799 after the indictment for gambling charges, Holiday and a local saloon keeper in the 372 00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:44.960 area named Champagne Charlie Austin, they had a little bit of a disagreement over 373 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.160 a card game. At the time, Doc was living in Dennis in Texas. 374 00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:53.200 The Dallas newspaper when they reported it, they really didn't think it was 375 00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:57.000 that big of a deal. But how it went down was both men pulled 376 00:30:57.039 --> 00:31:02.519 their pistols. There was a lot of shots fired, not one's truck, 377 00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:06.960 anybody. I mean, there's lots of shots fired. Doc could actually shoot 378 00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:11.000 extremely fast because that pistol that I had mentioned was being a self cocker. 379 00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:15.160 You didn't have to cock it, you know, in order to fire a 380 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:18.400 shot, which was most of the pistols in the wild West. You could 381 00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.160 just pull the trigger repeatedly and it would just go off, you know, 382 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:25.839 just bam bam, bam bam, super fast. So there's all these shots 383 00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:30.000 fired. Nobody got shot, not one person that was wounded. Both people 384 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:36.079 were arrested. Doc has brought up on shooting charges and he is eventually found 385 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:41.200 not guilty of shooting with intent to kill by a jury, but he was 386 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:45.680 found guilty and find in the gambling charges. Not too long after that, 387 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:52.960 riding about spring of eighteen seventy five, Holiday supposedly shot and killed a prominent 388 00:31:52.039 --> 00:32:00.160 citizen and had to flee back to Dallas. Now there's no newspaper account of 389 00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:04.759 this ever happening. There's no death records, there's no court records, there's 390 00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:07.920 absolutely nothing. So a lot of people believe that this did not happen. 391 00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:13.319 Is you're gonna come to find out, Doc Holliday. In order to kind 392 00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:19.160 of protect himself, he would tell a lot of tall tales. He would 393 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:23.720 his reputation would hit a town before he did, and people did not fuck 394 00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:28.200 with him. You're gonna come to find out. Like when people found out 395 00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:31.240 that his name was Doc Holliday, they did not want anything to do with 396 00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:36.079 him. All he had to do is say his name and that was it. 397 00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:38.440 And he did that as a means of protection, not to make him 398 00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:44.319 self. Sounds so much better, but he did it because he knew he 399 00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:46.559 was weaker than most people, like he had to do something. This was 400 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:52.000 his only means of living was gambling, So you know, when he's in 401 00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:57.200 at these gaming tables with all these big ass dudes who literally killed people at 402 00:32:57.200 --> 00:33:00.319 the drop of a hat. Doc Holliday had to have something. He had 403 00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:05.240 a reputation. Now, in June eighteen seventy five, he does make it 404 00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:09.960 to Fort Griffin, Texas. Holiday was indicted by a grand jury for gaming 405 00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:15.519 in a saloon and there was a warrant issued for his arrest. He hurries 406 00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:20.480 up in Skips Town. That's about the last we hear of him until sometime 407 00:33:20.519 --> 00:33:25.359 in eighteen seventy six he stops in Jacksboro, Texas. By this time he 408 00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:30.960 had gained a reputation as being known as the Deadly dentist, and that was 409 00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:36.640 partly because of his own stories and rumors and stuff like that that he was 410 00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:43.440 spreading about himself. Now in Jacksborough, he supposedly kind of enhanced that reputation 411 00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:50.559 with three supposed gunfights. His tally at this point in time, which is 412 00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:53.480 accepted by a lot of people, was, you know, one gambler dead, 413 00:33:53.880 --> 00:33:59.559 two gamblers wounded, and one six cavalry men dead. There are no 414 00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:04.279 news paper accounts, court records, no army records that mentioned any kind of 415 00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:10.000 this shit, but bat Masterson does report at one point in time later on 416 00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:16.719 that Holiday was in Jacksboro to South Carolina and he got into a gunfight with 417 00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:22.679 an unnamed soldier and Holiday supposedly shot and killed him. Oddly enough, there 418 00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:28.840 was a historian named Gary L. Roberts that did find a record for a 419 00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:32.440 guy who was known as Private Robert Smith who had been shot and killed by 420 00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:38.679 an unknown assailant. But Holiday was never linked to the death. So that's 421 00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:43.079 pretty you know, that's give or take. I'm not sure how I feel 422 00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:47.639 about that being fact, but it's pretty interesting that this that this historian did 423 00:34:47.679 --> 00:34:52.920 track that info down. Now, still in eighteen seventy six, he goes 424 00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:58.719 to Denver, Colorado. He uses the alias Tom Mackie at this point, 425 00:34:58.760 --> 00:35:02.440 and that's kind of a spin on his mother's maiden names McKee. That brings 426 00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:07.599 up a lot of questions. If he was just running away from gambling charges, 427 00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:10.880 why would he have to change his name, you know, So that 428 00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:16.559 does lend a little bit of credit to the fact that he possibly did kill 429 00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:22.679 like at least one or two people around that time beforehand, because nobody's going 430 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:27.320 to change their name to escape gambling charges. It was literally a fine, 431 00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:30.800 and you're gonna come to find out, Doc Holliday gets arrested and fined for 432 00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:36.400 gambling a lot, but he ends up getting a job as a pharaoh dealer 433 00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:43.559 at John A. Bab's theater. Comique or comic. It's spelled c O 434 00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:46.639 M I que. I'm not sure how to pronounce it. Right Around this 435 00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:52.639 time, too, he supposedly gets into a knife fight and kills a guy 436 00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:57.480 named Bud Ryan. There's two versions. Either he gets in a knife fight 437 00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:01.360 basically just cuts up Bud's face and neck real bad, scarring him for life. 438 00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:05.920 Another story says that he got into a knife fight with Bud Ryan and 439 00:36:06.039 --> 00:36:09.280 killed him. You know, there are no records for this. Karen Holiday 440 00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:14.519 Tanner, this is one book that I leaned on a lot for research. 441 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:17.719 She wrote a book called Doc Holiday. A family affair, I believe is 442 00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:22.320 what it's called. She goes on to say, you know, that event 443 00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:27.719 never happened. It was fabricated by a journalist who wrote for the Denver Republican 444 00:36:27.920 --> 00:36:34.159 after Doc's death. The false story appeared around Christmas of the year of Doc's 445 00:36:34.239 --> 00:36:43.599 death. Karen Holiday Tanner also notes again that bat Masterson would always readily perpetuate 446 00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:49.960 and fabricate stories to make Doc look more negative, look more like a bad 447 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:53.480 person, and he did this quite often. But in the article in the 448 00:36:53.519 --> 00:37:00.639 Denver Republican of June twenty, eighteen eighty seven, it does to hell of 449 00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:06.599 a young kid named Ryan who slashed the neck of a guy named Jack Brogan 450 00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:10.559 in a saloon called Moses's Home. So there was a slashing in Denver at 451 00:37:10.599 --> 00:37:15.480 this point in time, but it was much later on after Doc had died. 452 00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:22.079 Ryan was actually the slasher, and Holiday supposedly wasn't even involved or present 453 00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:28.039 at the time, so there is that information. On February fifth, eighteen 454 00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:32.639 seventy six, after gold is discovered in Wyoming, Doc heads there. He 455 00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:39.079 settles in Cheyenne. He starts dealing Pharaoh in a place called Bella Union Saloon, 456 00:37:39.199 --> 00:37:44.559 which is owned by a guy named Thomas Miller. Now, after more 457 00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:50.360 gold is discovered in the Deadwood, which is part of the Dakota territory at 458 00:37:50.360 --> 00:37:54.119 this time, he ends up moving that saloon to Deadwood. Doc goes with 459 00:37:54.199 --> 00:38:00.000 him and he pretty much just spends the winner playing poker and dealing Pharaoh. 460 00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:04.480 It is stated that Wyat Eerb is in Deadwood at this same time, but 461 00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:08.239 this is not where they actually cross passing meat yet. Going on from there, 462 00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:14.480 in early eighteen seventy seven, Doc goes back to Cheyenne. There is 463 00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:19.559 legends out there that say he killed three unidentified men before ending his visit. 464 00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:23.679 No evidence that he killed anyone in Wyoming. Then he goes back to Denver, 465 00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:29.320 goes back to Kansas to visit an aunt of his, Then he goes 466 00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:31.800 back to Dennis in Texas, and then back to Breckinridge, Texas. And 467 00:38:31.880 --> 00:38:37.760 this is all about the span of about six months or so. The next 468 00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:42.159 time we see him pop up is on July fourth, eighteen seventy seven. 469 00:38:42.199 --> 00:38:45.920 In Breckinridge, he gets into a fight with a guy named Henry Kahn over 470 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:52.199 a card game. And Doc was known to carry around a walking stick because 471 00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:54.559 you know, he's kind of frailing week at times, so apparently because of 472 00:38:54.559 --> 00:39:00.679 this card game in this argument, Doc uses his walking stick to beat the 473 00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:04.480 ever living shit out of this guy named Henry Cohn. I mean, he 474 00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:08.639 severely beat him. Both of them were arrested and fined for gambling. As 475 00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:13.000 irony would have it, the end of the fight, that wasn't really it. 476 00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:17.400 Later that day, Henry khn shows back up and shoots Doc and seriously 477 00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:22.840 injures him. As a matter of fact, in the July seventh Dallas Weekly 478 00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:28.960 Herald newspaper, they reported him as being dead. So Doc Holliday actually got 479 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:32.280 to read an article about himself being dead. So that's pretty interesting. But 480 00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:37.920 one of his cousins by the name of George Henry Holliday actually moved down there 481 00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:44.360 from Georgia to help him recover. Once he did recover fully, he goes 482 00:39:44.440 --> 00:39:49.400 to Fort Griffin, Texas and starts dealing cards at a saloon by a guy 483 00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:54.320 named John Chancey. Now this is where he meets big nosed Kate, who 484 00:39:54.440 --> 00:40:00.519 is a dancehall girl and occasional prostitute. And for all you sensitives out there 485 00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:07.440 who think prostitute is a derogatory term, I could be historically accurate right now 486 00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:13.039 and refer to her as a whore like I read in every single historical reference 487 00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:16.760 I read about her. But I'm actually being quite generous right now. But 488 00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:22.159 she was an occasional prostitute. She was only occasional prostitute because she viewed herself 489 00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:27.760 as more of an independent woman. She didn't want to belong to like a 490 00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:30.559 house brothel. She didn't really want to pimp, and she didn't want to 491 00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:34.920 get married and belonged to any man, so she just kind of did her 492 00:40:34.920 --> 00:40:39.840 own shit. A little bit about her was she was christened Mary Catherine Heroni, 493 00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:45.920 also known as Kate Fisher, also known as Kate Elder. She was 494 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:51.639 the daughter of a Hungarian doctor. She actually ran away from home when she 495 00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:58.280 was sixteen because she was escaping a sexual abuse from an unnamed male relative. 496 00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:02.760 People who who wanted to talk down about Kate, they did refer to her 497 00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:08.159 his big nose Kate. She did have like a Roman nose or a hook 498 00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:14.119 nose, if you know what those are, but it wasn't really particularly large 499 00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:21.079 or prominent by really any standards. Basically how it all worked out, this 500 00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:23.559 was, you know, the feature that did earn her the name. But 501 00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:28.440 Ali Rp, who was the wife of Virgil Earp, who was why it's 502 00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:31.639 a brother, claimed that, you know, this is why they called her 503 00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:37.280 big nosed Kate. Now, Kate herself never used that name, Doc never 504 00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:42.079 called her that. The Earp family called her that because her in the Earp 505 00:41:42.199 --> 00:41:46.039 family did not get along very well. So there's actually a lot of argument 506 00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:51.039 about whether or not she even had a big nose or not, and whether 507 00:41:51.159 --> 00:41:57.159 or not she was another woman who was referred to his big nose Kate because 508 00:41:57.159 --> 00:42:01.440 she was always sticking her nose into other people's business. Because there's two separate 509 00:42:01.480 --> 00:42:07.480 pictures who have been associated with big nosed Kate, people get the two pictures 510 00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:12.000 confused. One of them's right, one of them's wrong. But I'm gonna 511 00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:15.199 lean more towards the Earp family, you know, just because they really don't 512 00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:19.880 have anything to gain or lose from this, and they probably know better than 513 00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:24.239 anybody else because they actually knew her. So she was described as being tough, 514 00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:28.760 stubborn, and fearless. She was actually very educated. She was a 515 00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:30.559 very smart woman, and like I had said, she chose to be a 516 00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:37.159 prosecute because she liked her independence. And she is the only woman who Doc 517 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:39.679 Holliday is known to have had a relationship. I mean, she was pretty 518 00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:45.800 much his common law wife. She was referred to. They actually when they 519 00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:49.320 would check into boarding houses, they would be you know, they would sign 520 00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:52.880 in as mister and missus Doc Holliday so or John Henry Holiday. So. 521 00:42:53.559 --> 00:42:59.159 Don't get me wrong. They had some fights they had a very tumultuous relationship. 522 00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:02.400 But you know, the simple fact of the matter is Doc was even 523 00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:09.639 quoted as saying, you know that she was his intellectual equal because she was 524 00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:14.960 so well educated, and Doc was super educated as well. So I thought 525 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:19.239 that was pretty cool, all right. Now, moving forward to about October 526 00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:25.280 of eighteen seventy seven, outlawed Dirty Dave Ruta Ball, who got the nickname 527 00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:31.039 Dirty Dave because he refused to bathe. He robs a Santa Fe railroad construction 528 00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:36.000 camp, and he was fleeing south. A guy named Wyatt Earp, who 529 00:43:36.039 --> 00:43:43.159 was given a temporary commission as Deputy US Marshall, left Dodge City following route 530 00:43:43.199 --> 00:43:47.199 Ball over four hundred miles, which was six hundred and forty kilometers, and 531 00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:52.119 he ends up tracking him all the way to Fort Griffin. So Earp goes 532 00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:57.159 into a place called the Beehive Saloon, which is the largest in town in 533 00:43:57.199 --> 00:44:02.719 its owned by John Chancey. So John Chancey and Herb had been friends since 534 00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:06.840 they were younger. They had been friends a long time. And he goes 535 00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:08.599 in and asked Chancey. You know, He's like, hey, like, 536 00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:12.559 I'm tracked this guy to here. Have you seen him you know, I 537 00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.519 need info on him. I'm tracking him. And Chancey tells why at Earp 538 00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:21.559 that Dave Rutaball had passed through town earlier in the week and that he did 539 00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:24.679 not know where he was headed, and Chancey suggested that he asked this gambler 540 00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:30.480 named John Henry Holiday. Holiday had played cards with Ruta Ball earlier in the 541 00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:38.079 week, and Wyatt was pretty skeptical about talking to Doc Holiday. It was 542 00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:45.119 very well known that Doc hated lawman, so you know, he finds them 543 00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:50.760 later that evening at Chancey's and he was actually surprised at Doc's willingness to talk 544 00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:54.880 to him. And Doc was actually quoted as saying about dirty Dave Ruta Ball. 545 00:44:55.360 --> 00:45:00.320 Dirty Dave is an ignorant scoundrel. I disapprove of of his very existence. 546 00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:06.239 I considered ending it myself on several occasions, but self control got the 547 00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:10.480 better of me. Holiday pretty much tells wide Earth that Ruta Ball was more 548 00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:15.280 than likely headed back to Kansas. Now, this is the very first time 549 00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:21.039 that Doc and wide Earp do meet. Their relationship at this point is more 550 00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:25.360 of a relationship of necessity. You know, they're not really friends. Doc 551 00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:30.719 Holiday hated Dirty day of Ruta Ball a little bit more the lawmen, so 552 00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:34.639 you know, wide Earp was cool with the information. So while in Fort 553 00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:39.400 Griffin, Holiday's killer legend also has him claiming another victim. At about this 554 00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:45.280 time. A story goes that while playing poker, guy named Ed Bailey kept 555 00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:51.480 sifting through the discards, which was highly illegal in the game of Pharaoh. 556 00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:53.880 Holiday warned him a couple of times, but Bailey pretty much ignored him, 557 00:45:53.960 --> 00:45:58.480 kept doing it just to piss him off. So the next time Bailey did 558 00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:01.800 it, Holiday just packed up the pot, put his cards down without showing 559 00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:06.360 his hand, scooped up all the money without saying a word, which was 560 00:46:06.440 --> 00:46:08.599 pretty much the rules. That's how it worked. If somebody started looking at 561 00:46:08.639 --> 00:46:15.920 the discarded cards, so Bailey pulls out a revolver, but Holiday whipped out 562 00:46:15.960 --> 00:46:19.440 his knife, went to work, slashed him across the stomach. You know, 563 00:46:19.559 --> 00:46:23.440 blood spills out everywhere. Bailey falls across the table didn't even get a 564 00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:29.599 shot off. Doc didn't run because it was self defense and he knew that 565 00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:37.000 now. The dead gambler apparently had some friends, and when Holiday was arrested, 566 00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:39.239 he was arrested. He was put in jail. A lynch mob begins 567 00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:45.280 to form. Now, while Holidays in jail, the moms outside and they're 568 00:46:45.480 --> 00:46:50.320 doing their thing, talking about what's going to happen. What happens is big 569 00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:54.280 nose. Kate supposedly sets fire to a barn or a shed and holding a 570 00:46:54.400 --> 00:47:00.559 gun to a jailer. The burning building pretty much just drafted all the mob. 571 00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:05.280 Then Kate slipped into the jail, pulls out two six shooters, points 572 00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:08.920 him at the jailer. She already had horses waiting outside, and her and 573 00:47:09.039 --> 00:47:14.039 Doc Holliday rode off to Dodge City, Kansas and got the fuck out of 574 00:47:14.079 --> 00:47:16.679 town. Now, this is a really, really cool story, but it's 575 00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:22.800 probably only partly true. There's no newspaper articles or court records of any of 576 00:47:22.800 --> 00:47:28.639 this shit ever happening, except for the fact that Holiday had been arrested for 577 00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:34.280 illegal gaming again, not for killing a guy named Ed Bailey, and he 578 00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:37.559 wasn't locked in a jail. The town didn't even have a jail at the 579 00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:40.519 time. He was under like a form of house arrest. He was being 580 00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:45.239 held in a hotel room under guard. Now, Kate really did set fire 581 00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:50.239 to a shed behind the hotel as a diversion, and did fre dock so 582 00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:53.079 that part is true, which is that's a ride or die chick right there. 583 00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:58.840 Man, That is awesome. So they literally got out of town. 584 00:47:58.880 --> 00:48:05.079 They go to Dodge City. While in Dodge City they register at Deacon Cox's 585 00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:09.119 boarding house as doctor and missus John H. Holiday, and there just happens 586 00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:14.760 to be no dentist in town. So Doc kinda hangs out the sign and 587 00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:17.400 he's like, you know, in eighteen seventy eight, he puts out an 588 00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:22.320 ad in the paper and it just says dentistry John H. Holiday, Dentist 589 00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:30.159 very respectfully offers his professional services to the citizens of Dodge City and surrounding county 590 00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:36.840 during the summer office at Room number twenty four Dodge House, where satisfaction is 591 00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:42.840 not given money will be refunded. So he's actually trying to start open another 592 00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:46.679 business, trying to kinda go straight make a legitimate living. You know, 593 00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:52.840 he's pretty much got Kate under his name, so they're trying to be like 594 00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:58.719 respectable citizens, even though he's already got this crazy ass reputation anyway, So 595 00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:04.840 on September twenty fourth, eighteen seventy eight. Now this is according to a 596 00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:09.800 book called I Married Wider by a guy named Glenn Boyer. What happened was 597 00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:15.039 early in eighteen seventy eight, RB had run off a couple of cowboys by 598 00:49:15.039 --> 00:49:20.719 the name of Toby Driscoll and Ed Morrison out of Wichita, Kansas Now on 599 00:49:20.760 --> 00:49:25.119 September twenty fourth, eighteen seventy eight. The two cowboys, they had supposedly 600 00:49:25.400 --> 00:49:30.480 a couple dozen men with them. They ride into Dodge. They shot up 601 00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:34.280 the town. They're galloping up and down front Street and they walk into the 602 00:49:34.360 --> 00:49:38.039 Long Branch Saloon. They vandalized the place. They started harassing a bunch of 603 00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:44.239 customers. So Wyatterer, here's the commotion. He burst through the front door, 604 00:49:44.679 --> 00:49:49.559 and you know, before he could react, there's twenty cowboys standing there 605 00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:52.239 pointing their guns at him. You know, that's one verse. Another version 606 00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:57.119 is there were only three to five cowboys, but either way, he was 607 00:49:57.159 --> 00:50:04.559 outnumbered. In both versions of the story. Doc Holiday was sitting in the 608 00:50:04.639 --> 00:50:08.519 back room playing cards and he starts hearing the commotion going on, and he 609 00:50:08.599 --> 00:50:13.599 had recognized, you know, wyat Earp from when they had met before. 610 00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:17.119 So what he does is he creeps up behind the gang's leader, which was 611 00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:22.519 Ed Morrison, and he pulls out his pistol, puts it to Morrison's head, 612 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:25.800 tells him to disarm. He tells all the guys to disarm. Now, 613 00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:30.559 supposedly one of the men decided to try to be a quick trigger, 614 00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:36.320 pulls out a gun, Doc shot him without a hesitation and pretty much saved 615 00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:42.440 wyat Earp's life. You know, there's no technical account of any such confrontation 616 00:50:42.559 --> 00:50:47.360 being reported by any kind of Dodge City newspapers, so it's it's hard telling 617 00:50:47.400 --> 00:50:52.079 if that part of the story happened. There's another little side story that says, 618 00:50:52.159 --> 00:50:57.679 you know, whyatt was arresting three cowboys, one of whom was trying 619 00:50:57.679 --> 00:51:00.159 to pull an out of sight pistol, one that was hidden like behind him 620 00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:06.559 and his in his belt, and Holiday jumped up from a nearby poker table 621 00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:10.239 and cocked the pistol, put it to his head, and the dude dropped 622 00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:15.960 his pistol and either way saved why it's life. Now, either way you 623 00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:22.199 know that happened, We're not one hundred percent sure, but whatever did happen, 624 00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:27.599 he did draw his pistol and fended off any kind of attackers. That 625 00:51:27.639 --> 00:51:31.559 why it would have had and you know this incident may have been why Earp, 626 00:51:31.760 --> 00:51:37.119 you know, would always later praise Doc's speed and adeptness with a gun. 627 00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:39.800 He would always say, He's, like, dude, that guy is 628 00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:45.000 the fastest draw man. He's good with a pistol. And I don't think 629 00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:49.039 somebody like whyat Earp would say that just to say that because of his own 630 00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:52.559 reputation, But either way you look at it. Whya Earb credited Holiday was 631 00:51:52.599 --> 00:51:59.360 saving his life that day, and that seamented their friendship right there forever and 632 00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:02.599 okay, corral in quest in eighteen eighty one, wide Earp actually said, 633 00:52:04.360 --> 00:52:07.039 I am a friend of Doc Holliday because when I was a city marshal of 634 00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:10.599 Dodge City, Kansas, he came to my rescue and saved my life when 635 00:52:10.639 --> 00:52:16.000 I was surrounded by desperadoes. So I mean, it's it's a definite fact 636 00:52:16.079 --> 00:52:22.400 that Doc Holliday did save wide Earp's life. And because of their friendship, 637 00:52:22.480 --> 00:52:28.320 Doc starts associating himself with these lawmen, you know, White Earp and Bat 638 00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:35.000 Masterson, and he actually helps them on several occasions, and he helps them 639 00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:38.280 and they help Doc, you know, so they help him get out of 640 00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:42.840 trouble every now and then. It's kind of a fair thing. So it's 641 00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:49.480 not totally out of the realm of possibilities to dismiss that Doc Holliday was this 642 00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:53.039 good with a pistol Right around this time as well, Big knows Kate, 643 00:52:54.159 --> 00:53:00.400 she kind of starts getting bored. Unfortunately, she starts going back to the 644 00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:07.320 saloons and dancing. Doc was pretty pissed off about this because she's still carrying 645 00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:10.960 around the name missus John Holiday, and she's out here, you know, 646 00:53:12.159 --> 00:53:15.480 trying to be a show girl and kind of hurt him. You know, 647 00:53:15.519 --> 00:53:21.400 it hurt his pride a little bit. He really didn't want to practice dentistry 648 00:53:21.480 --> 00:53:23.559 anymore, you know, so like he's at a little bit of a turning 649 00:53:23.599 --> 00:53:27.519 point, you know, so he took down, you know, as dental 650 00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:30.440 cherry did. He didn't do that anymore. Kate ended up leaving him. 651 00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:35.679 She took off for parts unknown. Nobody knows where she went for a while, 652 00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:40.320 and Doc himself actually took off too. He ended up going for Leadville, 653 00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:45.960 which was in the Colorado Territory at the time. Now here's a couple 654 00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:51.360 more stories. On his way to Colorado Territory, Holiday is said to have 655 00:53:51.599 --> 00:53:55.800 become involved in an argument with two gamblers an argument that he won by killing 656 00:53:55.840 --> 00:54:00.840 both men. Once in Trinidad, Colorado Territory, he supposedly got into a 657 00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:07.239 gunfight with another gunman named Kid Colton. You know, the story has Doc 658 00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:10.800 shooting Colton, just straight up dead, so he's got another notch on his 659 00:54:10.960 --> 00:54:17.119 gun. But again, there's no newspaper account or court records. Nobody else 660 00:54:17.239 --> 00:54:22.440 mentioned these two incidents. You know, not to argue that fact, because 661 00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:25.639 that is a good fact, because I do work on facts. I work 662 00:54:25.679 --> 00:54:30.199 on documented evidence. But again, we have to think this is the late 663 00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:35.800 nineteenth century in the West. If two men are out in the middle of 664 00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:39.079 nowhere and one shoots another one, there's no newspaper that's going to report it. 665 00:54:39.800 --> 00:54:45.079 There's no court document that's ever gonna show it. Dude's gonna lay out 666 00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:47.039 there dead and he's gonna decompose, and nobody's ever going to know except for 667 00:54:47.119 --> 00:54:53.519 the other guy. So I absolutely fucking hate it when they discredit a lot 668 00:54:53.559 --> 00:55:00.320 of these stories based on that phrase right there, because they do that shit 669 00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:02.519 all the time. I always say, there's no court documents, you know, 670 00:55:02.559 --> 00:55:07.119 there's no newspaper articles. Yeah, that's cool, But when you're on 671 00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:09.199 the side of a fucking mountain. There's not a newspaper office there, So 672 00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:14.920 you as a listener just kinda got to keep that in mind. There's two 673 00:55:14.920 --> 00:55:19.360 ways to think about that. While Doc is leaving Colorado, he's on his 674 00:55:19.400 --> 00:55:23.840 way to Las Vegas and New Mexico territory. In eighteen seventy nine Holiday, 675 00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:29.679 which you know, according to legend, killed some more people. He was 676 00:55:29.719 --> 00:55:35.239 at a railroad construction camp called O'taro. Doc is said to have killed another 677 00:55:35.800 --> 00:55:40.000 person who pretty much he just left out there to decompose. Like I said, 678 00:55:40.480 --> 00:55:45.159 all historians say, there's no record, no evidence whatsoever such an event. 679 00:55:45.519 --> 00:55:47.960 It could have happened, it could not have happened. We don't know. 680 00:55:49.199 --> 00:55:52.880 There's only one person who knows whether or not it happened. So a 681 00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:58.719 little bit before Christmas in eighteen seventy eight Holiday and Big Nose Kate they are 682 00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:02.239 back together. They both arrived in Las Vegas, New Mexico. There are 683 00:56:02.239 --> 00:56:07.920 supposedly twenty two hot springs near the town that were said to have favored individuals 684 00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:14.039 with tuberculosis. They had alleged healing properties, so a lot of people with 685 00:56:14.280 --> 00:56:16.559 tuberculosis would go there. They would bathe in the hot springs, and it 686 00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:22.800 was supposedly supposed to extend their lives, you know, as we know now, 687 00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:27.840 it was almost exactly the opposite. Probably didn't help him too much. 688 00:56:28.159 --> 00:56:32.960 But there is another alleged victim of Dic Holliday in Las Vegas at this time. 689 00:56:34.760 --> 00:56:38.239 His name is Charlie White. Holiday had run White, who's a bartender, 690 00:56:38.239 --> 00:56:43.039 out of dodge and told him that if he ever saw him again, 691 00:56:43.159 --> 00:56:46.920 he would kill him. Well, Holiday sees White again, and he's attending 692 00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:52.239 bar at the Plaza Hotel saloon in Las Vegas's Old Town, and a guy 693 00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:59.719 named Miguel Antonio Otero. He ended up later becoming the governor of New Mexico. 694 00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:04.840 But Miguel told the story because he was witnessed to it, and he 695 00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:07.519 straight up says that, you know, the two men faced each other, 696 00:57:08.119 --> 00:57:13.039 began shooting. They shoot and shoot with no one scoring a hit. Finally, 697 00:57:13.119 --> 00:57:15.920 Charlie White is down. What happened was, you know, they had 698 00:57:15.960 --> 00:57:20.360 had an argument previously. Doc straight up told him, if I ever see 699 00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:22.360 you again, I'm gonna kill you. So he sees him in the saloon, 700 00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:27.360 he leaves to go get his gun, comes back. Doc Holliday literally 701 00:57:27.400 --> 00:57:30.800 just starts shooting blindly over the bar, and what he does is he shoots 702 00:57:31.119 --> 00:57:35.719 White in the head, but it wasn't a full shot. It actually just 703 00:57:35.800 --> 00:57:38.000 grazed his skull a little bit, So it really is just stunned. White 704 00:57:38.199 --> 00:57:43.679 didn't really, you know, do too much damage. There isn't again his 705 00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:47.440 story in say, there is no newspaper account or court records were found to 706 00:57:47.519 --> 00:57:52.000 verify such a gunfight ever took place. But here's a deal. You have 707 00:57:52.039 --> 00:57:57.360 an eyewitness who later became governor who says, yeah, I saw the whole 708 00:57:57.400 --> 00:58:00.840 damn thing happen, like this is how it happened. So I mean, 709 00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:04.119 you can kind of take that as you will. Now. While they did 710 00:58:04.199 --> 00:58:08.159 get in the New Mexico Territory, Doc opened a dental practice again and continued 711 00:58:08.239 --> 00:58:15.159 gambling as well. The winter was really unseasonably cold that year, business was 712 00:58:15.239 --> 00:58:21.159 really slow, and luck would have it that the New Mexico Territorial Legislature passed 713 00:58:21.159 --> 00:58:25.639 to bill banning gambling within the territory, and Doc said, fuck this, 714 00:58:25.960 --> 00:58:30.960 I'm about done, And in March eighth, eighteen seventy nine, Holiday was 715 00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:35.840 indicted again for keeping a gaming table. He was fine twenty five dollars. 716 00:58:36.519 --> 00:58:42.440 The ban combined with the ban on gambling, the fine he keeps getting indicted 717 00:58:42.440 --> 00:58:46.920 on gambling charges. You got extreme low temperatures pretty much persuades him to return 718 00:58:46.960 --> 00:58:52.039 to Dodge City for just a few months. So on July twentieth, eighteen 719 00:58:52.159 --> 00:58:58.960 seventy nine, there's a lot of accounts of Doc Holliday killing a man named 720 00:58:59.079 --> 00:59:05.079 Mike Gordon. A coroner's end quest held the day that Gordon was killed, 721 00:59:05.400 --> 00:59:08.719 they made no mention of Doc Holliday. Was ruled that the fatal gunshot wound 722 00:59:09.159 --> 00:59:15.159 to Gordon's chest was inflicted by some person unknown to that jury. The newspaper 723 00:59:15.159 --> 00:59:21.000 at the time expanded on the killings for days without a single mention of Holiday, 724 00:59:21.400 --> 00:59:23.559 who actually at this time had his own saloon. He had bought his 725 00:59:23.599 --> 00:59:29.480 own saloon on a center street. Again, we bring up bat Masterson, 726 00:59:29.760 --> 00:59:34.000 who adds to it. He pretty much gave it. He gave an interview 727 00:59:34.039 --> 00:59:38.679 to the Arizona Weekly Citizen on August fourteenth, eighteen eighty six. He was 728 00:59:38.760 --> 00:59:45.519 the one who named Holiday as Gordon's killer, and even threw in a Mexican 729 00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:51.719 that Doc was supposed to have shot. When the Mexican was pissed about Doc 730 00:59:51.760 --> 00:59:57.440 shooting Gordon. So basically bat Masterson says towards the end of Doc's life and 731 00:59:59.239 --> 01:00:02.440 eighteen eighty six, he's like, yeah, Holiday fucking shoots this guy named 732 01:00:02.440 --> 01:00:07.039 Gordon, because I remember back in eighteen seventy nine when it happened. You 733 01:00:07.079 --> 01:00:10.960 know, they never found him guilty. And then this Mexican gets pissed because 734 01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:15.920 he killed Gordon, so Doc kills him too. But like I had said, 735 01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:21.840 you know, Bat Masterson, he was kind of prone to exaggerate facts 736 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:27.679 and making his own life story like a lot more colorful. And he did 737 01:00:27.719 --> 01:00:30.039 that same ship with Holiday too. You know, he fucking made him look 738 01:00:30.079 --> 01:00:35.039 bad. He put a lot of words into his mouth. He created all 739 01:00:35.119 --> 01:00:40.599 these events that Holiday did as well. So by September of eighteen seventy nine, 740 01:00:40.679 --> 01:00:46.960 man Doc Holiday is pretty much developed an extreme reputation for his skill with 741 01:00:47.079 --> 01:00:55.239 a gun as well as with gambling and cards. A gamelike pharaoh gives the 742 01:00:55.239 --> 01:01:00.880 men the power to stop time. That is the appeal in my observation. 743 01:01:00.920 --> 01:01:06.199 When the bed is placed, a moment is carved away from the past and 744 01:01:06.320 --> 01:01:13.599 the future. In that enchanted moment, anything is possible. A man's debts 745 01:01:13.639 --> 01:01:21.239 and regrets and limitations disappear. He is buying the chance to imagine, for 746 01:01:21.440 --> 01:01:25.280 one moment at a time, that the next card ideal will make him rich. 747 01:01:27.440 --> 01:01:31.039 John Henry Holiday. Okay, So, first and foremost, I'm going 748 01:01:31.079 --> 01:01:36.960 to address not so much some questions, but kind of some questions and stuff 749 01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:40.000 that people wanted me to go more in depth on, the first one being 750 01:01:40.199 --> 01:01:45.960 why did Doc want to become a dentist? Well, Doc was always known 751 01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:49.519 to be like a very nervous kid. He was a nervous dude. His 752 01:01:49.599 --> 01:01:54.119 hands would like shake, Okay, So when his mom would teach him piano 753 01:01:54.159 --> 01:01:58.440 when he was younger, she used to put pennies on the back of his 754 01:01:58.559 --> 01:02:02.760 hands to steady his hands and keep them level and calm. And this is 755 01:02:02.800 --> 01:02:07.800 part of the reason he was such a talented piano player, you know. 756 01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:12.159 That being said, he realized that when he was doing something with his hands 757 01:02:12.199 --> 01:02:15.960 that he was concentrating on, that was the only time that he was like 758 01:02:15.079 --> 01:02:20.480 really calm and his hands wouldn't shake. And above that, he had also 759 01:02:20.920 --> 01:02:25.920 previously mentioned to why Earp at one point in time that working on teeth was 760 01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:30.079 really the only thing that kept his hands still after he got out of playing 761 01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:36.000 piano. So that was one of the reasons that he did pursue dentistry because 762 01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:39.719 he knew that if he was concentrating on using his hands, then his hands 763 01:02:39.719 --> 01:02:44.360 would stay still. And that's also a lot there's a lot of speculation as 764 01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:47.880 to why he was so fast with a six shooter is because of that. 765 01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:52.920 He just had those busy, nervous hands. Another question I got that kind 766 01:02:52.920 --> 01:03:00.480 of goes into the timeline. I got asked about the saloon that he had 767 01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:04.400 built, and then I got asked to elaborate more on the shooting of Mike 768 01:03:04.480 --> 01:03:07.159 Gordon as well. And here's how that goes down. Those actually kind of 769 01:03:07.159 --> 01:03:12.800 tie into each other, all right. So the Santa Fe Company, which 770 01:03:12.880 --> 01:03:15.760 was like a railroad back then, they built tracks into Las Vegas, New 771 01:03:15.840 --> 01:03:20.760 Mexico, and they actually by pass a town by about a mile or so. 772 01:03:21.239 --> 01:03:23.920 Well, there's a new town built near the tracks, and as soon 773 01:03:23.960 --> 01:03:28.320 as that new town was built is the end of the tracks. So it's 774 01:03:28.360 --> 01:03:34.320 one of those places where gambling and prostitution is just everywhere. And on July 775 01:03:34.519 --> 01:03:38.800 nineteenth, eighteen seventy nine, holiday and a guy named John Joshua Webb who 776 01:03:38.840 --> 01:03:44.639 was actually a former lawman but he had turned into an outlaw, and they 777 01:03:44.679 --> 01:03:50.599 were seated in a saloon that Doc had built. And how this all goes 778 01:03:50.639 --> 01:03:54.440 down is there was a former US Army scout by the name of Mike Gordon. 779 01:03:54.719 --> 01:03:59.760 Now he goes into this saloon and he tries to persuade one of the 780 01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:02.440 one of the dancers, one of the saloon girls, who actually was a 781 01:04:02.480 --> 01:04:06.840 former girlfriend of his. Of Mike's, he tries to go in there and 782 01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:10.280 persuade her to leave town. You know, He's like, hey, you 783 01:04:10.280 --> 01:04:13.199 know, qu quit what you're doing now, just leave town with me, 784 01:04:13.719 --> 01:04:16.400 you know, blah blah blah. Well she ends up refusing, so Mike 785 01:04:16.480 --> 01:04:20.679 Gordon gets pissed and he goes outside and he pulls out his guns and he 786 01:04:20.760 --> 01:04:26.760 just starts firing bullets into this fucking building. And pretty much nobody really knows 787 01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:31.719 what happens after that, because a few hours later Gordon was found shot outside. 788 01:04:32.679 --> 01:04:35.840 Like I had said, some people do attribute the shooting to Holiday, 789 01:04:36.079 --> 01:04:43.000 you know, Batmasterson being one of those people. There's no actual evidence that 790 01:04:43.159 --> 01:04:47.920 supports that claim that Holiday killed Gordon. There was no evidence ever found. 791 01:04:48.320 --> 01:04:54.119 Well, what happens is the next day, Holiday pays a carpenter three hundred 792 01:04:54.119 --> 01:04:59.840 and seventy two dollars and fifty cents to build a little building basically to how's 793 01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:04.119 Doc Holliday's saloon, and John Joshua Webb is going to be his partner. 794 01:05:04.760 --> 01:05:14.039 Now, the reason that Mike Gordon was not shot in Doc Holliday's saloon like 795 01:05:14.159 --> 01:05:17.320 a lot of people say happened, is because when Mike Gordon was shot, 796 01:05:17.320 --> 01:05:24.360 the saloon hadn't actually been built yet. So even if he would have shot 797 01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:28.039 Gordon, Doc Holliday wouldn't have stuck around town. He wouldn't have built a 798 01:05:28.079 --> 01:05:31.760 fucking saloon right there in town. He would have left while he was in 799 01:05:31.840 --> 01:05:35.880 town. Though, in Los Vegas for that time period, it should be 800 01:05:35.920 --> 01:05:42.440 known that he was fined twice for keeping a gambling table. He was also 801 01:05:42.599 --> 01:05:45.719 charged again for carrying a deadly weapon. So those were three charges in a 802 01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:50.440 very short amount of time. So there's a little bit of elaboration on that 803 01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:55.679 right there. Now, with jumping back into this timeline, we're actually going 804 01:05:55.719 --> 01:06:00.719 to answer another one of the questions that I had received about elaborating more on 805 01:06:00.880 --> 01:06:06.159 bat Masterson and Doc's relationship. You know, it was a relationship of necessity. 806 01:06:06.239 --> 01:06:11.079 What it was was bat Masterson was a lawman with wyat Earp. He 807 01:06:11.199 --> 01:06:15.199 respected wyatt Earp, so he tolerated Doc. And you know, if Doc 808 01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:20.320 could be utilized to his advantage, then they would work together. And Doc 809 01:06:20.440 --> 01:06:24.559 was the same way with bat Masterson because he was a lawman, he could 810 01:06:24.599 --> 01:06:28.639 help him get out of trouble whenever. Needed to think about it was bat 811 01:06:28.679 --> 01:06:33.360 Masterson had so much respect for wyatt Earp, and Wyatterp credited Doc was saving 812 01:06:33.400 --> 01:06:39.599 his life. So there was like a mutual respect. Now Doc and Bat 813 01:06:39.639 --> 01:06:43.760 honestly couldn't really you know, they tolerated each other. They weren't really friends, 814 01:06:44.159 --> 01:06:47.079 you know, they were more associates. But it was a relationship of 815 01:06:47.159 --> 01:06:53.519 necessity more than anything else. Before Doc had gone back to Las Vegas. 816 01:06:53.519 --> 01:06:57.800 While he was in Dodge City, he joined a team which was formed by 817 01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:00.920 bat Masterson, who was a deputy US Marshal at the time. What was 818 01:07:00.960 --> 01:07:09.079 going on was Batmasterson had been asked like basically start a militia to prevent an 819 01:07:09.119 --> 01:07:15.480 outbreak of a small little war between the atchetson Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, 820 01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:19.000 which was known as the ATSF or just referred to as the Santa Fe, 821 01:07:19.119 --> 01:07:24.199 which I just did earlier. And the other railroad was the Denver and Rio 822 01:07:24.440 --> 01:07:30.880 Grand Western Railroad also known as D and R GW. Both these railroad companies 823 01:07:30.920 --> 01:07:36.119 had hired people to basically fight a little war form now. They were fighting 824 01:07:36.159 --> 01:07:41.760 to be the first railroad to claim the right of way across the Royal Gorge. 825 01:07:42.400 --> 01:07:46.000 The Royal Gorge was one of very few natural routes, you know, 826 01:07:46.039 --> 01:07:50.559 through the Rockies that crossed over the Continental Divide. Now, both of these 827 01:07:50.679 --> 01:07:56.159 two factions at the railroad, they were trying to be the first to provide 828 01:07:56.159 --> 01:08:00.400 this rail access to the boomtown of Leadville, Colorado, which dockheads and time 829 01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:06.079 in before the Royal Gorge was a bottleneck along the Arkansas, so it was 830 01:08:06.119 --> 01:08:12.119 too narrow for two railroads to pass through. There was no other access to 831 01:08:12.159 --> 01:08:15.680 this area. So Doc was there for about two and a half months, 832 01:08:15.840 --> 01:08:21.479 all right, and he's basically fighting like a little war among you know, 833 01:08:21.560 --> 01:08:28.720 Bat Masterson and a little militia that he had formed to basically fight this other 834 01:08:28.800 --> 01:08:33.680 railroad. So there's actually an intervention. There's a federal intervention which prompted the 835 01:08:33.680 --> 01:08:38.680 so called what is referred to as the quote unquote Treaty of Boston, and 836 01:08:38.720 --> 01:08:43.119 they ended up ending the fight, the little fighting scenario that was going on 837 01:08:43.199 --> 01:08:48.199 there. The Denver and Rio Grand Western Railroad, now they ended up completing 838 01:08:48.239 --> 01:08:53.680 the line first. And what they did was they leased it for the Santa 839 01:08:53.720 --> 01:08:59.079 Fe Railroad to use, so they got the money for building it, and 840 01:08:59.079 --> 01:09:01.680 there like, okay, Santa Fe Railroad, well, you guys can run 841 01:09:01.680 --> 01:09:04.680 your trains on it, but you're gonna fucking pay us. The thing about 842 01:09:04.760 --> 01:09:10.319 that was Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson and their little group of guys, they 843 01:09:10.319 --> 01:09:15.199 controlled what was called the roundhouse, which is where all the locomotives were stored 844 01:09:15.399 --> 01:09:18.840 and where they were all serviced and fixed and stuff like that. And what 845 01:09:19.399 --> 01:09:27.359 the D and RGW Railroad did was they paid a bribe to Bat Masterson of 846 01:09:27.439 --> 01:09:32.760 ten thousand dollars to basically take over that roundhouse. So they took the bribe. 847 01:09:33.199 --> 01:09:39.159 Doc Holliday took his share and then ended up going back to Las Vegas. 848 01:09:39.199 --> 01:09:42.079 So that's how he had a bunch of money when he got back to 849 01:09:42.199 --> 01:09:45.159 Las Vegas. Hopefully that clarify as some of the questions you guys had with 850 01:09:45.199 --> 01:09:48.000 getting more in depth. I know, the whole railroad thing was confusing. 851 01:09:48.000 --> 01:09:53.199 It was like a whole fucking thing that was going on that I really didn't 852 01:09:53.319 --> 01:09:56.399 I mean, I got in depth on it, but that was literally that 853 01:09:56.439 --> 01:09:59.960 could be like a whole fucking podcast in itself, you know what I'm saying. 854 01:10:00.680 --> 01:10:04.319 All Right, So what's going on is it's October eighteenth, eighteen seventy 855 01:10:04.399 --> 01:10:09.359 nine. We're in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and Wyatt Earp shows up 856 01:10:09.359 --> 01:10:14.560 into town and he starts telling Doc about news of a boom going on in 857 01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:20.880 a place called Tombstone, Arizona Territory. Holiday and Kate were just settling into 858 01:10:20.920 --> 01:10:25.640 their life in Las Vegas. You know, they were kind of hesitant to 859 01:10:25.720 --> 01:10:31.039 leave. But Holiday and Kate ended up joining Wyatt and his common law wife, 860 01:10:31.359 --> 01:10:34.520 Maddie Blaylock, as well as Jim Earp, which was one of Wyatt's 861 01:10:34.560 --> 01:10:39.479 brothers, and his wife and step daughter, and they ended up traveling the 862 01:10:39.560 --> 01:10:44.600 next day to Prescott, Arizona. Now, while they're in the Arizona Territory. 863 01:10:44.640 --> 01:10:48.760 In Prescott, Doc Holiday has just this crazy fucking run of good luck 864 01:10:48.800 --> 01:10:54.760 on the poker tables. So you know, Kate's there with them, and 865 01:10:54.880 --> 01:10:58.319 they're doing good. And like I had mentioned in part one, they had 866 01:10:58.359 --> 01:11:02.640 a very tumultuous relationship. They were always fighting, like Kate would get drunk 867 01:11:02.680 --> 01:11:06.640 and like very fucking abusive, and Doc Holliday wasn't a big guy, so 868 01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:10.600 you know, he would just kind of take it and get pissed about it 869 01:11:10.680 --> 01:11:13.880 or whatever. But at this point in time, Doc Holliday is said to 870 01:11:13.960 --> 01:11:18.800 have been drinking two quarts of whiskey a day along with laudanum to help cure 871 01:11:18.920 --> 01:11:25.199 his pains of tuberculosis. So they're actually like getting along at this point. 872 01:11:25.439 --> 01:11:29.479 So they end up hanging out in Prescott for a long time because everything's going 873 01:11:29.520 --> 01:11:34.399 pretty good right now. Now, in September of eighteen eighty, Holiday is 874 01:11:34.479 --> 01:11:41.680 just has a fucking pocketful of all these gamblers money and he decides to finally 875 01:11:41.680 --> 01:11:47.199 go to Tombstone. Holiday gets some living quarters for him and Kate and they're 876 01:11:47.279 --> 01:11:54.000 sandwiched in between a funeral parlor and the Soma Winery. And this is on 877 01:11:54.039 --> 01:11:58.359 the north side of Allen Street in sixth Street. Now Kate what she does. 878 01:11:58.800 --> 01:12:03.560 She realizes an opportunity here. So as soon as they get into Tombstone. 879 01:12:04.199 --> 01:12:10.199 She goes into business. She purchased a large tent and she rounded up 880 01:12:10.239 --> 01:12:14.319 a few girls and a few barrels of bad, cheap whiskey. She ended 881 01:12:14.399 --> 01:12:18.000 up operating what is referred to as a quote unquote sporting house. And I'm 882 01:12:18.000 --> 01:12:23.319 pretty sure we all understand what the fuck that was. Okay, Wyatt Earp 883 01:12:23.399 --> 01:12:28.359 had already been in Tombstone like the previous December, so Holiday, you know, 884 01:12:28.520 --> 01:12:33.319 finally joins them in Tombstone. There are some accounts out there that report 885 01:12:33.399 --> 01:12:39.720 that the Earth's sent for Holiday for assistance with a dealing with an outlaw faction 886 01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:45.560 known as the Cowboys. So when Doc gets there, he very quickly starts 887 01:12:45.600 --> 01:12:48.720 getting all tangled up in the local politics. There's a lot of violence going 888 01:12:48.800 --> 01:12:53.039 on, and you know, this is some of the ship that leads up 889 01:12:53.079 --> 01:12:58.199 to the gunfight at the Ok Corral. What the cowboys were. Cowboys were 890 01:12:58.279 --> 01:13:04.560 mainly the Clanton mclowry families, and they were pretty much ranchers on the outskirts 891 01:13:04.640 --> 01:13:10.000 of Tombstone. The way that they were operating, which you know, we'll 892 01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:12.880 get to a little bit in the timeline, was they were pretty much stealing 893 01:13:12.920 --> 01:13:17.159 cattle from across the Mexican border and bringing them back here, you know, 894 01:13:17.279 --> 01:13:20.439 and then selling them, you know, having a butcher. They were wrestlers, 895 01:13:20.520 --> 01:13:24.560 dude, they were They were fucking thieves. They were outlaws. But 896 01:13:24.800 --> 01:13:29.520 Tombstone pretty much tolerated them. Okay, it was It was like a fifty 897 01:13:29.600 --> 01:13:32.279 fifty thing there. Like either, you know, the townspeople were cool with 898 01:13:32.319 --> 01:13:35.800 the cowboys and you know, they would help them out run with them, 899 01:13:35.840 --> 01:13:41.880 and that does go along with with Sheriff John Bahn, who was the Coachis 900 01:13:42.000 --> 01:13:45.000 County sheriff at the time. But there was also another half of the town 901 01:13:45.119 --> 01:13:51.399 that that like, did not like the lawlessness. So the cowboys they fucking 902 01:13:51.520 --> 01:13:57.039 hated that the Art brothers and Dike Holliday were in town. And basically it 903 01:13:57.079 --> 01:14:02.039 was because these dudes, the cowboys knew that the Earps and Holiday weren't going 904 01:14:02.119 --> 01:14:04.960 to take any shit, that they were actually going to stand up to him 905 01:14:04.960 --> 01:14:10.399 and fight back. The cowboys, like I said, mainly consisted of a 906 01:14:10.600 --> 01:14:15.039 Newton Clanton, which he was known as old Man Clanton, and he had 907 01:14:15.119 --> 01:14:19.359 three sons named Finn, Ike, and Billie. Now the mcclowry brothers were 908 01:14:19.399 --> 01:14:25.399 Frank and Tom. Another cowboy was curly Bill Barocious, and then of course 909 01:14:25.520 --> 01:14:30.199 Johnny Ringo, Johnny Ringo, for those of you have seen the movie Tombstone, 910 01:14:30.640 --> 01:14:35.840 that's a pretty accurate proortrayal of Johnny Ringo. He was a fucking psychopath. 911 01:14:36.279 --> 01:14:42.600 He was one of those guys in the gang that his own gang members 912 01:14:42.600 --> 01:14:45.600 were fucking scared to death of. It is said there's a story of him 913 01:14:45.640 --> 01:14:50.039 literally shooting a guy's jaw off because he refused to have a drink with them. 914 01:14:50.319 --> 01:14:56.039 This dude was legit a psychopath. These are the kind of guys that 915 01:14:56.920 --> 01:15:00.479 the Earps and Dic Holliday are dealing with. And the Cowboy he has made 916 01:15:00.560 --> 01:15:03.439 no qualms about saying, hey, we don't want these guys here, get 917 01:15:03.439 --> 01:15:06.520 them the hell out of town. But the thing about it was is the 918 01:15:06.600 --> 01:15:13.159 Coach's county sheriff, John Behan, usually always sighted with the cowboys. It's 919 01:15:13.159 --> 01:15:17.000 suggested that you know, either John Beehan was in cahoots with them, like 920 01:15:17.079 --> 01:15:20.079 working with them, or he was just straight up scared to death of them. 921 01:15:20.239 --> 01:15:26.520 So he was absolutely no help to the townspeople whatsoever. So while they're 922 01:15:26.520 --> 01:15:30.520 in Tombstone, Arizona, doc ends up becoming a regular at a place called 923 01:15:30.520 --> 01:15:35.560 the Oriental Saloon. Now, whyatt Earp does own a little part of the 924 01:15:35.640 --> 01:15:41.039 Oriental Saloon. So Doc is in there all the time playing poker, playing 925 01:15:41.039 --> 01:15:44.560 Pharaoh, dealing Pharaoh, because as we learn from part one, Doc Holliday 926 01:15:44.640 --> 01:15:47.000 is very good with cards, he's very good with numbers. So he's in 927 01:15:47.039 --> 01:15:50.880 there trying to make some money. Now, the main owner of the Oriental 928 01:15:50.920 --> 01:15:56.319 Saloon was a guy named Milt Joyce. Milt Joyce was not a big fan 929 01:15:56.680 --> 01:16:00.720 of the Earps. He did not like Dic Holiday. There's a lot of 930 01:16:00.760 --> 01:16:05.359 fucking tensions. There is a lot of tension going on in Tombstone at this 931 01:16:05.439 --> 01:16:12.680 point in time. So on October tenth, eighteen eighty, this local asshole 932 01:16:12.880 --> 01:16:17.680 named Johnny Tyler he starts causing trouble in the saloon. Now there's a lot 933 01:16:17.680 --> 01:16:21.319 of speculation on whether or not he was just a total asshole in general, 934 01:16:21.359 --> 01:16:25.840 which he was, but it has also stated I did read in a few 935 01:16:25.840 --> 01:16:31.119 other places that some of the local bar owners did kind of pay him money 936 01:16:31.159 --> 01:16:34.119 to go into the Oriental and kind of shake shit up a little bit. 937 01:16:34.720 --> 01:16:40.359 What happens on October tenth is whyat ends up kicking his ass out, and 938 01:16:40.640 --> 01:16:45.760 Doc is extremely happy about this, Like, I'm not gonna lie. Doc's 939 01:16:45.800 --> 01:16:49.800 a little bit of an instigator because he's already on borrowed time as it is, 940 01:16:50.039 --> 01:16:56.199 and he does not care about anything pretty much, so he's, you 941 01:16:56.279 --> 01:17:00.399 know, always instigating shit. So what happens is three gets out, Johnny 942 01:17:00.439 --> 01:17:04.640 Tyler goes and gets his pistol and comes back to the saloon to confront Doc. 943 01:17:05.359 --> 01:17:11.720 Doc ends up drawing his gun and he challenges Tyler to a fight right 944 01:17:11.760 --> 01:17:14.439 there where they stood. And when I talk about a fight, I'm not 945 01:17:14.479 --> 01:17:16.920 talking about a fistfight. It was more like a pull your gun, I'm 946 01:17:16.920 --> 01:17:20.039 gonna fucking kill you before you kill me type of thing. That's what a 947 01:17:20.039 --> 01:17:24.760 fight was back then. So he challenged Tyler to a fight, like right 948 01:17:24.760 --> 01:17:28.560 there where they stood. Tyler backed down because, like I had said, 949 01:17:29.000 --> 01:17:33.640 Doc had this reputation and not that many people wanted to mess with them. 950 01:17:33.760 --> 01:17:38.720 So when Doc was all adamant about, you know, draw your pistol, 951 01:17:38.760 --> 01:17:42.000 man, let's do this right now, Johnny Tyler kind of backed down a 952 01:17:42.000 --> 01:17:46.439 little bit. Now both men are pretty angry, and they were actually both 953 01:17:46.479 --> 01:17:51.920 disarmed before any shots were fired. Now, Johnny Tyler ends up leaving now 954 01:17:51.960 --> 01:17:56.880 the owner of the Oriental. Like I had said, Milt Joyce, he 955 01:17:56.960 --> 01:18:00.319 did not like Holiday or the herbs at all. But what he did was 956 01:18:00.399 --> 01:18:06.279 he started getting on Doc. He started instigating shit with Doc Holliday. So 957 01:18:06.680 --> 01:18:13.199 Doc gets pissed and he's already drunk, and Joyce ends up kicking Holiday out 958 01:18:13.199 --> 01:18:15.560 of the saloon. Well, when they broke up the fight, they took 959 01:18:15.680 --> 01:18:19.239 Doc and Johnny Tyler's guns. So Doc demands his gun back, okay, 960 01:18:19.520 --> 01:18:24.720 and Milt Joyce pretty much says no, I'm not giving you your gun back, 961 01:18:24.920 --> 01:18:29.800 Like, get the hell out of here. Doc leaves and he goes 962 01:18:29.840 --> 01:18:31.840 and gets a double action Revolver, and he comes back to the saloon. 963 01:18:32.840 --> 01:18:36.680 Joyce sees Doc walk in the door and he's got a pistol in his hand. 964 01:18:38.039 --> 01:18:42.800 So Joyce pulls out a Revolver himself. Holliday just starts pulling the trigger. 965 01:18:42.840 --> 01:18:47.399 Man just starts shooting. Okay. Supposedly he one of two things happened. 966 01:18:47.439 --> 01:18:50.840 Either he shoots the gun out of Joyce's hand and puts a bullet through 967 01:18:50.840 --> 01:18:54.880 the palm of his hand, or he shoots his thumb off. Either way, 968 01:18:55.439 --> 01:18:59.960 I did read several accounts that say that Doc Holliday did shoot the gun 969 01:19:00.039 --> 01:19:02.640 out of his hand, and I did read in more than one place that 970 01:19:02.680 --> 01:19:05.920 the bullet did go through the palm of his hand, because he almost last 971 01:19:06.000 --> 01:19:10.920 lost his hand because of it. And now while that happens, one of 972 01:19:10.960 --> 01:19:14.279 the bartenders, a guy by the last name of Parker, he goes over 973 01:19:14.319 --> 01:19:17.439 and he tries to disarm Doc. And while this struggle is going on, 974 01:19:17.520 --> 01:19:21.680 Doc ends up shooting him in the foot, blows his big toe off, 975 01:19:23.199 --> 01:19:28.159 and during the fight, Doc drops his pistol. Well, Joyce runs over 976 01:19:28.279 --> 01:19:31.359 picks up the pistol. He ended up firing one shot that missed Doc, 977 01:19:31.880 --> 01:19:35.319 but he when he had the pistol, he pistol whipped him hit him over 978 01:19:35.359 --> 01:19:40.439 the head with it. By about that time, law enforcement officer by the 979 01:19:40.479 --> 01:19:45.039 last name of Bennett pretty much appeared into the building. He separated them in. 980 01:19:45.720 --> 01:19:49.560 Now the Epitaph, which was a local newspaper there in Tombstone, reported 981 01:19:49.640 --> 01:19:55.479 that a quote Holiday was picked up and placed in a chair, it being 982 01:19:55.560 --> 01:20:00.000 generally thought from his bloody appearance, that he was severely, if not fatally 983 01:20:00.079 --> 01:20:04.479 hurt. So, I mean, when Milt Joyce cracked Doc Holliday over the 984 01:20:04.520 --> 01:20:08.760 head with this pistol. We're not sure how many times. I mean, 985 01:20:08.840 --> 01:20:13.600 it messed him up good. So he's sitting in a chair just bleeding already, 986 01:20:13.600 --> 01:20:16.800 on top of being drunken stuff like that. It hurt him pretty bad. 987 01:20:17.079 --> 01:20:20.840 But I will say this on a side note, the Tombstone Nuggets account 988 01:20:20.880 --> 01:20:30.079 which the Tombstone Nugget was very negatively biased, okay, towards Doc and the 989 01:20:30.159 --> 01:20:33.479 Herb brothers. Now, they said that Doc shot at Joyce first, who 990 01:20:33.560 --> 01:20:39.000 was ten feet away at the time, and then Joyce approached Doc in order 991 01:20:39.039 --> 01:20:44.039 to pistol whip him. Now, this really doesn't seem very likely. It 992 01:20:44.159 --> 01:20:49.079 says it is doubtful that Joyce approached an armed Doc Holliday who was already firing 993 01:20:49.119 --> 01:20:54.920 at him from a distance of ten feet, So it makes sense that ducking 994 01:20:55.000 --> 01:21:00.119 for cover would probably have made more sense, and that along with maybe returning 995 01:21:00.159 --> 01:21:05.840 fire rather than attempting to pistol whip Doc. And they said that it is 996 01:21:06.479 --> 01:21:12.600 more likely that Doc's wilde shots were fired when Joyce first leap upon him from 997 01:21:12.640 --> 01:21:18.119 the bar melt. Joyce's attack probably was provoked. Karen Holliday Tanner, who 998 01:21:18.239 --> 01:21:23.319 wrote the book A Doc Holliday a family affair. I did relay on that 999 01:21:23.359 --> 01:21:28.479 book for a lot of research. She went ahead and said by Doc's reappearance 1000 01:21:28.600 --> 01:21:32.640 with the gun, and also, perhaps not surprisingly, by something Doc said. 1001 01:21:33.119 --> 01:21:38.600 The nugget claimed that upon returning to the saloon, Doc made a remark 1002 01:21:38.680 --> 01:21:42.840 to Joyce that if he didn't give him his gun back, he would not 1003 01:21:43.000 --> 01:21:46.520 appear well in print, which basically says, you know, your name wouldn't 1004 01:21:46.520 --> 01:21:51.119 look good in the paper after I kill you. Man. There's no doubt 1005 01:21:51.159 --> 01:21:55.840 about the fact that that Doc Holliday was hurt, really bad, and he 1006 01:21:55.920 --> 01:22:00.159 was bleeding from the one or two or three blows that joy had dealt him. 1007 01:22:00.680 --> 01:22:05.439 But that little quote about Doc Holliday coming back in and basically tell Milt 1008 01:22:05.520 --> 01:22:09.760 Joyce, hey, man, give me my gun back because your name ain't 1009 01:22:09.760 --> 01:22:12.760 gonna look good no obituary, dude. You know, I thought that was 1010 01:22:12.800 --> 01:22:17.159 a pretty cool little fact, and that was something that Karen Holliday Tanner did 1011 01:22:17.600 --> 01:22:21.880 go on to say, so I thought that was pretty awesome. On October 1012 01:22:21.920 --> 01:22:27.319 eleventh, eighteen eighty, Doc, believe it or not, is brought up 1013 01:22:27.319 --> 01:22:30.640 on charges because of this shooting. A warrant is issued for his arrest on 1014 01:22:30.680 --> 01:22:34.760 a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Now. 1015 01:22:34.760 --> 01:22:40.600 The very next day, on October twelfth, eighteen eighty, the Daily Nugget, 1016 01:22:40.640 --> 01:22:45.119 which was the local paper there in Tombstone, did report that quote. 1017 01:22:45.159 --> 01:22:49.279 Holiday appeared in court and the custody of Town Marshal Fred White. None of 1018 01:22:49.279 --> 01:22:55.199 the prosecution witnesses appeared in court. The defendant offered a plea of guilty to 1019 01:22:55.319 --> 01:22:59.600 assault and battery. It was accepted and the charge of assault with a deadly 1020 01:22:59.640 --> 01:23:05.000 weapon was dismissed. Holiday was fined twenty dollars and the cost of eleven dollars 1021 01:23:05.000 --> 01:23:11.239 and twenty five cents end quote. So Dic Holiday again, you know, 1022 01:23:11.319 --> 01:23:16.920 gets out of some charges because literally none of these witnesses ever appeared in court 1023 01:23:17.039 --> 01:23:21.279 on behalf of the prosecution to charge Doc Holiday. Now, there is a 1024 01:23:21.319 --> 01:23:26.399 lot of speculation that, you know, maybe whiter p had a lot to 1025 01:23:26.479 --> 01:23:29.520 do with that and kind of talking them out of it. You know. 1026 01:23:29.840 --> 01:23:34.000 So there is that things are going pretty shitty for Doc Holiday right now. 1027 01:23:34.319 --> 01:23:38.960 He has that that he's dealing with right now, and his relationship with Big 1028 01:23:39.000 --> 01:23:43.279 Notes Kate is going to shit now. They did live together, but Dic 1029 01:23:43.439 --> 01:23:48.920 was really concentrating on his drinking and gambling, and Kate pretty much was concentrating 1030 01:23:48.960 --> 01:23:56.079 on her drinking and you know her other duties as a saloon woman. So 1031 01:23:56.680 --> 01:23:59.880 you know, they were doing a lot of fighting. And around this time, 1032 01:24:00.119 --> 01:24:04.319 Kate is starting to be very loud, very abusive when she's drunk. 1033 01:24:04.520 --> 01:24:10.600 So Doc finally decides that he's had enough and he throws her ass out. 1034 01:24:10.640 --> 01:24:15.520 Okay. On October twenty eighth, Tombstone Town, Marshall, guy by the 1035 01:24:15.600 --> 01:24:19.199 name of Fred White was trying to break up a group of just some late 1036 01:24:19.319 --> 01:24:24.159 night dudes getting rowdy. You know, they were some of the cowboys, 1037 01:24:24.159 --> 01:24:28.720 and pretty much what they're doing is they're out on Allen Street and Tombstone in 1038 01:24:28.760 --> 01:24:32.399 there fucking howling and shooting at the moon. So he walks over and he 1039 01:24:32.800 --> 01:24:39.199 tries to confiscate the pistol of Curly Bill Barrocius. Now he ended up getting 1040 01:24:39.239 --> 01:24:43.520 shot in the abdomen. Now, Wyatt Earp goes over and he does what 1041 01:24:43.560 --> 01:24:46.399 they call he went over in Buffalo to Curly Bill Brocius. Now what that 1042 01:24:46.439 --> 01:24:49.960 means is basically just went over and intimidated the shit out of him, and 1043 01:24:50.039 --> 01:24:55.640 he ended up knocking him unconscious and he arrested him. A lot of years 1044 01:24:55.640 --> 01:25:00.439 wait later, Wyatt ended up telling his biographer that he thought bro Sis was 1045 01:25:00.479 --> 01:25:04.560 still armed at the time and had not noticed that Brosius's pistol was already on 1046 01:25:04.600 --> 01:25:09.000 the ground, so that's why he kind of took it to the next level 1047 01:25:09.000 --> 01:25:12.760 and ended up knocking his ass out. The pistol when it was picked up, 1048 01:25:13.000 --> 01:25:16.840 it contained one fired off cartridge and he had five live rounds in it. 1049 01:25:17.159 --> 01:25:23.399 Curly Bill ended up waving a preliminary hearing so he in his case could 1050 01:25:23.399 --> 01:25:27.600 be transferred to the Tucson District Court because he thought they would get more fair 1051 01:25:27.600 --> 01:25:30.520 of a trial there. Now White ended up dying two days later because of 1052 01:25:30.560 --> 01:25:35.640 the shooting, and in return, curly Bill Brosius ended up getting charged with 1053 01:25:35.760 --> 01:25:41.840 murder. Now on December twenty seventh, eighteen eighty end court, Wyatt RB 1054 01:25:42.039 --> 01:25:47.000 himself did testify that he thought the shooting was accidental. It was also demonstrated 1055 01:25:47.079 --> 01:25:54.239 that curly Bill's pistol could have been fired from the half cock position. That 1056 01:25:54.479 --> 01:25:59.319 combined with the fact that Fred White left a statement before he died he didn't 1057 01:25:59.319 --> 01:26:04.159 die immedia, and he actually said himself that the shooting was not intentional, 1058 01:26:04.239 --> 01:26:10.039 that it was an accident, So the judge ended up releasing curly Bill Brocius. 1059 01:26:10.680 --> 01:26:15.359 But Curly Bill kind of had a little bit resentment towards Wyatt Earp for 1060 01:26:15.960 --> 01:26:20.800 beating the shit out of him when he was arresting him, because Whader pretty 1061 01:26:20.880 --> 01:26:25.359 much did, I mean, he kicked his ass pretty good. So Curly 1062 01:26:25.479 --> 01:26:29.680 Bill just kind of had that kind of had that resentment about him ever since 1063 01:26:29.720 --> 01:26:33.520 then. So on March fifteenth, eighteen eighty one, this is where we 1064 01:26:33.560 --> 01:26:40.079 start getting in some pretty cool stuff. There were four masked men that attempted 1065 01:26:40.079 --> 01:26:45.039 to hold up of the Caneer and Company stage near Contentions City. Now, 1066 01:26:45.239 --> 01:26:50.840 these four masked robbers killed the stage driver, which was Bud Philpott. Another 1067 01:26:50.840 --> 01:26:56.920 guy named Peter Roig, who was a passenger. Doc was not involved. 1068 01:26:57.359 --> 01:27:03.199 He was later accused by the cow Boys of being involved. It was proven 1069 01:27:03.279 --> 01:27:10.359 later on that the cowboys themselves were actually involved or connected somewhat to this robbery. 1070 01:27:10.800 --> 01:27:15.880 So they're basically taking an opportunity to pass this on to Doc and to 1071 01:27:15.920 --> 01:27:18.279 get him into trouble because nobody liked Doc, you know what I'm saying. 1072 01:27:18.800 --> 01:27:26.399 So according to Wyatter, Doc was in town at the Alhambra Saloon at the 1073 01:27:26.439 --> 01:27:30.520 time of the robbery was reported, and had been in town since late afternoon. 1074 01:27:30.960 --> 01:27:34.439 Now the stage was robbed at ten PM, and this was actually while 1075 01:27:34.560 --> 01:27:39.560 Doc was dealing or playing Pharaoh. But a friend of Doc's, who was 1076 01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:43.760 a respectable jeweler, who used to be a respectable jeweler, i should say, 1077 01:27:43.800 --> 01:27:46.359 by the name of Leonard, is named as one of the bandits. 1078 01:27:46.880 --> 01:27:54.039 That's how the Cowboys kind of got Doc's name going on in there. Doc's 1079 01:27:54.119 --> 01:27:59.800 involvement came pretty much from that former jeweler by the last name of Leonard and 1080 01:28:00.720 --> 01:28:05.840 the Cowboy faction and Sheriff Behan himself. Now they're basically trying to cover up 1081 01:28:05.880 --> 01:28:12.119 their own involvement in the robbery. So all the residents in this town, 1082 01:28:12.720 --> 01:28:15.000 they even thought the members of the Cowboy gang, you know, Ike Clanton, 1083 01:28:15.119 --> 01:28:19.960 Frank Stillwell, Curly Bill dude named Pete Spencer were involved in the holdup. 1084 01:28:20.039 --> 01:28:24.760 So literally, like the whole town is like Cowboys are the ones who 1085 01:28:24.840 --> 01:28:28.720 did it. Sheriff Behan's probably involved too, Like why the fuck are they 1086 01:28:28.800 --> 01:28:33.319 trying to blame Dike Holliday for this shit? So Cowboy faction ended up accusing 1087 01:28:33.319 --> 01:28:36.760 Holiday of being one of the holdup men, and Milt Joyce, the owner 1088 01:28:36.760 --> 01:28:43.720 of the Oriental he was actually county supervisor as well. Now him and Sheriff 1089 01:28:44.000 --> 01:28:48.520 John Behan. What they did was they found Kay on one of her drunken 1090 01:28:48.600 --> 01:28:54.720 binges. Okay, she's pissed off because Dike Holliday had thrown her ass out. 1091 01:28:55.079 --> 01:28:59.159 So she's sitting there just talking all this shit about Dic Holliday and this 1092 01:28:59.239 --> 01:29:03.560 and that. So Joyce and be Hand pretty much see this as an opportunity, 1093 01:29:03.640 --> 01:29:08.640 right, So they go over and they buy her all the whiskey that 1094 01:29:08.720 --> 01:29:12.880 she can drink, and they start sympathizing with her, you know, like, 1095 01:29:13.000 --> 01:29:15.239 oh man, he's such a horrible guy. You know, I can't 1096 01:29:15.239 --> 01:29:20.079 believe he did that to you. You're such a good woman. And what 1097 01:29:20.119 --> 01:29:25.680 they start doing is start suggesting on how she can even the score with Doc 1098 01:29:25.760 --> 01:29:32.439 Holiday. Now what happens is they eventually persuade her to sign an affidavit implicating 1099 01:29:32.560 --> 01:29:41.000 Doc Holiday in this hold up. They also persuade her to say that he 1100 01:29:41.199 --> 01:29:45.920 was the guy who pulled the trigger on the gun that killed Bud Philpott. 1101 01:29:45.600 --> 01:29:50.600 So Justice of the Peace guy named by the name of Wells Spicer. He 1102 01:29:50.680 --> 01:29:57.560 issues a warrant for Holiday's arrest and he's using big nosed Kate's Affidavid for this. 1103 01:29:58.279 --> 01:30:00.920 Now, while Kate is so bring up, what the Earth's are doing 1104 01:30:01.159 --> 01:30:05.640 is they start rounding up witnesses who could testify Doc's whereabouts on the night that 1105 01:30:05.720 --> 01:30:10.680 the hold up occurred. And this is very very important to the Oka Koral 1106 01:30:10.760 --> 01:30:15.600 thing. Okay, now listen, what Wyatt Earp does is he secretly goes 1107 01:30:15.159 --> 01:30:20.159 to Ike Clanton and offers him money. Now, what he's doing is he's 1108 01:30:20.239 --> 01:30:26.960 trying to find out the whereabouts of the remaining stage robber and basically, if 1109 01:30:27.000 --> 01:30:30.079 he gets this information, he can clear Doc's name and get him out of 1110 01:30:30.079 --> 01:30:35.439 this trouble. Not only that, but Whyatt's planning on running for sheriff as 1111 01:30:35.479 --> 01:30:41.840 well, so this would help his political ambitions and he'll get his best friend 1112 01:30:41.840 --> 01:30:45.680 out of trouble. Now, the reason we know this this is fact because 1113 01:30:45.680 --> 01:30:50.319 Wyatt actually admitted this in a later newspaper interview. He had these two motives 1114 01:30:50.399 --> 01:30:56.560 right here. So when Kate actually sobered up, she realized what she had 1115 01:30:56.600 --> 01:31:00.159 done and she went ahead and she insisted that you know she had signed a 1116 01:31:00.159 --> 01:31:05.079 paper while drinking with b Hannon Joyce, but that she couldn't remember what the 1117 01:31:05.119 --> 01:31:11.680 paper was when all these witnesses came forward, witnesses to you know, Holiday's 1118 01:31:11.720 --> 01:31:15.520 whereabouts at the time of the robbery, and then Kate saying, Hey, 1119 01:31:15.600 --> 01:31:17.720 I don't I was so fucking drunk, Like these two guys got me to 1120 01:31:17.760 --> 01:31:21.319 sign this AFFI David, I don't even know what it was. Basically, 1121 01:31:21.359 --> 01:31:26.760 it was this big plot run by the Cowboy faction. Holiday ends up getting 1122 01:31:26.760 --> 01:31:31.479 released. The district attorney labeled the charges ridiculous and he pretty much threw them 1123 01:31:31.479 --> 01:31:35.720 out. Now, Doc at this time is like seriously pissed at Kate, 1124 01:31:35.760 --> 01:31:40.199 all right, and he gives her some money and he pretty much puts her 1125 01:31:40.199 --> 01:31:43.399 on a stage coach and he where the funk out of town. He's like, 1126 01:31:43.520 --> 01:31:47.079 just go, I'm not even dealing with this shiit anymore. So she 1127 01:31:47.199 --> 01:31:51.680 gets out of town and basically at this point, as far as he's concerned, 1128 01:31:53.119 --> 01:31:59.199 his debt to her is even because she did break him out of the 1129 01:31:59.479 --> 01:32:04.000 house situation in Fort Griffin by you know, setting that fucking fire and pretty 1130 01:32:04.079 --> 01:32:08.680 much you know, had the horses waiting when they went to Dodge City and 1131 01:32:08.720 --> 01:32:12.520 stuff, and on his side of the argument, he's like, we're even 1132 01:32:12.880 --> 01:32:15.960 okay, you got me out of jail, but you literally almost got me 1133 01:32:15.079 --> 01:32:18.439 charged with murder. Here's some money, get the fuck out of town. 1134 01:32:18.479 --> 01:32:24.840 We're done. She supposedly had made like two or three trips back to Tombstone 1135 01:32:24.840 --> 01:32:29.920 to visit Doc, because she does say that she was a witness to the 1136 01:32:29.960 --> 01:32:33.560 gunfight at the Okay Corral. We're not one hundred percent sure if she actually 1137 01:32:33.720 --> 01:32:40.039 was or not, but we do know that they did share a room at 1138 01:32:40.399 --> 01:32:45.399 a boarding house by the name of Missus Flies boarding House, So there's a 1139 01:32:45.479 --> 01:32:48.439 very good chance that she was back into town by the time the shooting at 1140 01:32:48.439 --> 01:32:55.000 the Okay Corral did happen. Now, even before the stage coach was robbed, 1141 01:32:55.000 --> 01:32:58.960 because dude, these stage coaches were robbed pretty often by the cowboys. 1142 01:32:59.000 --> 01:33:02.520 All right, all these businessmen, and like the higher ups in Tombstone, 1143 01:33:02.960 --> 01:33:08.279 they're pretty much sick of like all this violence going on with the cowboys. 1144 01:33:08.720 --> 01:33:11.960 Along with that, the state of Arizona is starting to get pissed at the 1145 01:33:11.960 --> 01:33:16.520 cowboys because they keep crossing the Mexican border and coming back and they're rustling cattles 1146 01:33:16.520 --> 01:33:21.640 and mules. They did not want a border war with Mexico because you have 1147 01:33:21.680 --> 01:33:26.720 the Mexican authorities saying, hey, you guys, don't fucking do something about 1148 01:33:26.760 --> 01:33:31.000 this, We're going to So there's even more attention right there now. Along 1149 01:33:31.000 --> 01:33:35.920 with that, Whyatt wanted to win the upcoming sheriff's election. He had been 1150 01:33:36.000 --> 01:33:43.119 running against, you know, Sheriff Behan, who actually lost his last election. 1151 01:33:43.840 --> 01:33:47.359 Now, Behan is described as corrupt. You know, more often than 1152 01:33:47.439 --> 01:33:51.039 not, Behand only enforced the law when it pretty much suited him. He 1153 01:33:51.079 --> 01:33:55.359 was that kind of cop. He was seriously corrupt, like I said, 1154 01:33:55.399 --> 01:34:00.000 even before the Okay Corral. Whyatt figured that enforcing the law against the cowboys, 1155 01:34:00.279 --> 01:34:05.399 which Behand would never really do, would likely win him that upcoming sheriff's 1156 01:34:05.439 --> 01:34:11.319 election. So Wyatt wanted the town of Tombstone to see him as a tough, 1157 01:34:11.960 --> 01:34:15.079 a fair kind of guy with morals and stuff like that. So he 1158 01:34:15.119 --> 01:34:19.279 would pretty much be the perfect man for sheriff. So he's sitting here like, 1159 01:34:19.439 --> 01:34:23.800 you know, he's promoting his image and the local press, you know, 1160 01:34:23.840 --> 01:34:28.640 and he has business connections in town, so they're supporting him. And 1161 01:34:29.039 --> 01:34:31.279 more often than not, you know, in a place like Tombstone at this 1162 01:34:31.359 --> 01:34:35.640 point in time, they're more often they're going to elect a hero, which 1163 01:34:35.760 --> 01:34:41.680 Behand obviously was not. Behan was kind of a piece of shit. Okay, 1164 01:34:41.800 --> 01:34:45.359 So Wyatt's whole thing was cleaning up the town. Behand knew that he 1165 01:34:45.479 --> 01:34:49.960 was gunning for his job, and they both had that animosity for each other. 1166 01:34:50.880 --> 01:34:56.319 Doc and Wyatt being such good friends. They were fiercely loyal to each 1167 01:34:56.359 --> 01:35:02.000 other. Okay. Doc's reputation and kind of shady past, you know, 1168 01:35:02.119 --> 01:35:06.479 as well as the fact that he had taken part in the stagecoach robbery, 1169 01:35:08.039 --> 01:35:14.279 kind of meant that Doc was he was literally a political liability for Wyatt. 1170 01:35:14.319 --> 01:35:19.000 But Wyatt honestly did not care. He still kept him close, He still 1171 01:35:19.439 --> 01:35:24.000 always had his back, He still defended him. That was the cool thing 1172 01:35:24.039 --> 01:35:29.039 about it. Like to Wyatt, having Doc around to have his back in 1173 01:35:29.119 --> 01:35:33.800 a fight was priceless. They trusted each other, and that's what it came 1174 01:35:33.840 --> 01:35:40.000 down to in the end. So moving on to August thirteenth, eighteen eighty 1175 01:35:40.000 --> 01:35:43.880 one. All right, at this point in time, the border between New 1176 01:35:43.920 --> 01:35:48.159 Mexico and Arizona is there's a lot of tension there and some ship goes down. 1177 01:35:48.239 --> 01:35:53.720 Okay, old man Clanton, who technically at this time is the head 1178 01:35:53.800 --> 01:35:59.399 of the cowboys. He's driving a herd of cattle into Tombstone Market. He's 1179 01:35:59.399 --> 01:36:01.439 expected, you know, to have a quick sale, make a quick profit, 1180 01:36:01.720 --> 01:36:06.600 done with it. Well, what ends up happening is they made camp 1181 01:36:06.680 --> 01:36:11.640 the first night, which was on August twelfth. Most likely it was in 1182 01:36:11.720 --> 01:36:17.159 Guadaloupe Canyon, which was about one mile south of the International Boarder. Now 1183 01:36:17.239 --> 01:36:24.479 with him were Dixie Lee Gray, Billy Lang, Bud Snow, Billy Buyers, 1184 01:36:24.880 --> 01:36:29.439 Harry Earnshaw, and Jim Crane. Now Crane was one of the four 1185 01:36:29.479 --> 01:36:32.960 men who had attempted to rob the stage coach near Contention Shit City, like 1186 01:36:33.039 --> 01:36:39.479 five months earlier that they ended up trying to blame Doc for so. The 1187 01:36:39.560 --> 01:36:44.880 other three men who had been involved were Harry Head, Billy Leonard, the 1188 01:36:44.960 --> 01:36:47.960 former jeweler who was friends with Doc Holliday, and another guy named Luther King. 1189 01:36:48.039 --> 01:36:55.079 Those were the four masked men who robbed that stage coach near Contention City. 1190 01:36:55.399 --> 01:36:59.600 Now Luther King was arrested by Morgan Earp Believe it or not, he 1191 01:36:59.680 --> 01:37:05.159 had quote unquote escaped from Sheriff b Han's jail, so Head and Leonard had 1192 01:37:05.199 --> 01:37:11.680 been killed by Ike and Bill, a guy named Bill Haslett over in New 1193 01:37:11.720 --> 01:37:15.960 Mexico Territory for that right there. Now, in the early morning of August 1194 01:37:15.960 --> 01:37:23.039 thirteenth, the Clanton party was attacked by riflemen. Lang Gray, Crane, 1195 01:37:23.119 --> 01:37:28.239 Snow, and old Man Clant were all killed. Buyers and Earnshaw were wounded, 1196 01:37:28.399 --> 01:37:31.279 but they did escape. Okay. The attackers were said to be Mexicans. 1197 01:37:31.880 --> 01:37:39.359 Now, several historians believe that the Earp Federal Posse was involved in the 1198 01:37:39.399 --> 01:37:44.239 death of these men, and that would have included Doc Holliday. Now it 1199 01:37:44.279 --> 01:37:48.000 should be stated that supposedly, according to some accounts, Doc Holliday in this 1200 01:37:48.119 --> 01:37:54.000 altercation had been shot in the leg and it was kind of suspicious because some 1201 01:37:54.159 --> 01:37:59.600 historians say that he was lightly wounded and possibly walking with a cane. But 1202 01:37:59.640 --> 01:38:03.560 there are other historians who totally disregard this fact, so it's hard to tell 1203 01:38:03.560 --> 01:38:11.560 what exactly happened. Now, records show that Marshall Crawley Dake was ordered to 1204 01:38:11.600 --> 01:38:15.199 send a posse down to the border to pretty much put to rest some of 1205 01:38:15.199 --> 01:38:20.920 these disturbances caused by the cowboys. Now, Marshall Dake. He trusted wid 1206 01:38:21.039 --> 01:38:27.199 Earp and likely it's more than likely wid Earp was head of this posse. 1207 01:38:27.359 --> 01:38:31.199 Okay. Now, logically the first place for his federal posse to search would 1208 01:38:31.239 --> 01:38:34.960 have been the area, you know, where Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, 1209 01:38:35.000 --> 01:38:40.199 and Chihuahua, Mexico all meet, and it appears that they did. 1210 01:38:40.760 --> 01:38:45.680 They did indeed find the cowboys in Guadaloupe Canyon or possibly Skeleton Canyon, and 1211 01:38:45.760 --> 01:38:51.279 the posse must have been happy to see Jim Crane with them, because you 1212 01:38:51.359 --> 01:38:55.520 know, Jim Crane was one of the one of the guys who robbed the 1213 01:38:55.560 --> 01:39:00.560 stage coach. Now, the Mexican government was they had a stance, you 1214 01:39:00.600 --> 01:39:04.560 know, with the cowboy wrestling problem. It was pretty much either the Americans 1215 01:39:04.760 --> 01:39:09.760 would have to stop the cowboys from coming across the border to steal or the 1216 01:39:09.840 --> 01:39:14.560 Mexicans were going to handle it themselves. So there may have been some Mexicans 1217 01:39:14.600 --> 01:39:18.319 present in the canyon too, either working with the American lawman or like a 1218 01:39:18.399 --> 01:39:24.439 joint effort type thing, or they might have just been there like observing the 1219 01:39:24.479 --> 01:39:30.359 American effort to take out the cowboys. But dic Holiday and another Earb brother 1220 01:39:30.439 --> 01:39:33.039 by the name of Warren were wounded at the border gun battle, and they 1221 01:39:33.039 --> 01:39:38.920 did not appear in Tombstone until they had recovered. So you know, there's 1222 01:39:38.960 --> 01:39:43.920 that side of historians that say that, So that would explain why Holiday had 1223 01:39:43.920 --> 01:39:48.880 a cane when the Okay Corral did happen, and why Warren RB actually did 1224 01:39:48.960 --> 01:39:56.199 miss the gunfight at the Okay Corral. Now, according to some other historians, 1225 01:39:56.680 --> 01:40:00.479 it was the Mexican authorities, not the art Posse, who were involved 1226 01:40:00.479 --> 01:40:03.039 in the shootout with the cowboys, you know who, Like I'd said, 1227 01:40:03.399 --> 01:40:08.560 they were known for stealing cattle across the border. So you know, you 1228 01:40:08.640 --> 01:40:11.920 have the other side saying, you know, the EARP Posse was working with 1229 01:40:11.960 --> 01:40:15.640 the Mexican authorities. You know, we really are not sure. All we 1230 01:40:15.720 --> 01:40:23.720 know is that the Earps were directly involved with investigating the stagecoach robbery. We 1231 01:40:23.840 --> 01:40:28.960 do know that, all right, that is fact. So here's what happens 1232 01:40:29.000 --> 01:40:32.800 on October twenty fifth, eighteen eighty one. Now, when we start getting 1233 01:40:32.840 --> 01:40:38.600 into the Okay Corral shootout, I'm just going to let you know right now, 1234 01:40:38.640 --> 01:40:43.800 like there are so many varying eyewitness accounts. I literally had to take 1235 01:40:44.000 --> 01:40:48.199 all these accounts I had to put them all together, and then I kind 1236 01:40:48.199 --> 01:40:53.680 of had to go through them and make sense of what happened. Now, 1237 01:40:53.720 --> 01:40:58.000 when the Okay Corral shootout does come, because that happened on October twenty six, 1238 01:40:58.079 --> 01:41:00.800 where the day before this is what leads up to it. You got 1239 01:41:00.880 --> 01:41:04.039 to keep in mind that it's very fast paced. This all happened. The 1240 01:41:04.039 --> 01:41:09.279 Okay Karl shoot out happened in a matter of thirty seconds, so there's a 1241 01:41:09.279 --> 01:41:12.840 lot of stuff going on. This is leading up. This is the day 1242 01:41:12.840 --> 01:41:17.279 before October twenty fifth, eighteen eighty one. Doc and Kate had pretty much 1243 01:41:17.279 --> 01:41:21.159 by this time kind of rekindled their romance, and they were in Tucson. 1244 01:41:21.800 --> 01:41:29.119 Ike Clampton spends the entire day in Tombstone just getting ship faced drunk, all 1245 01:41:29.199 --> 01:41:33.880 right, and he's going from saloon to saloon, and he's threatening to kill 1246 01:41:33.920 --> 01:41:41.039 the RPS and Doc Holiday basically telling every single person who would listen, I'm 1247 01:41:41.039 --> 01:41:45.439 gonna kill these guys, so big nos. Kate made a statement saying that 1248 01:41:45.720 --> 01:41:50.199 Perr and Doc were in Tucson. Doc was playing Pharaoh, Kate said, 1249 01:41:50.239 --> 01:41:56.119 and I quote, I was standing behind him when Morgan RP came and tapped 1250 01:41:56.119 --> 01:42:00.399 Doc on the shoulder and said, Doc, we want you in Tombstone tomorrow. 1251 01:42:00.560 --> 01:42:04.680 Better come up this evening. Now, Doc claimed that they went back 1252 01:42:04.680 --> 01:42:10.199 to their room and quote Doc left me at his room and went with Morgan 1253 01:42:10.279 --> 01:42:15.720 at ten thirty pm that night end quote. Now that later that night Doc 1254 01:42:15.760 --> 01:42:19.760 gets into Tombstone. Okay, Ike Clanton is kind of in panic mode, 1255 01:42:19.920 --> 01:42:25.079 and why he's in panic mode is because of his involvement was selling out the 1256 01:42:25.119 --> 01:42:30.840 cowboys to the Earps, because like I had mentioned, Earp had secretly made 1257 01:42:30.880 --> 01:42:36.399 that deal with Ike Clant to sell out the other cowboys to basically clear Doc's 1258 01:42:36.479 --> 01:42:43.279 name with his involvement in the stagecoach robbery. So Ike's kind of in panic 1259 01:42:43.319 --> 01:42:48.239 mode because he's scared that his actions are going to be discovered. When he 1260 01:42:48.279 --> 01:42:53.479 sees Doc Holliday arrive in to town, he's he's pissed because he thinks that 1261 01:42:53.520 --> 01:42:59.920 Wyatt had told him about their arrangement about you know him and why it's arranged. 1262 01:43:00.520 --> 01:43:03.680 So Ike accuses Whyat of telling Doc about it, he was afraid that 1263 01:43:03.680 --> 01:43:09.359 that Doc Holiday might leak the story to the other cowboys or to the other 1264 01:43:09.359 --> 01:43:14.680 people in town. So Whyatt tells Ike Clant He's like, listen, I 1265 01:43:14.720 --> 01:43:17.520 didn't tell Doc anything about the payoff. I didn't tell him that I gave 1266 01:43:17.560 --> 01:43:20.560 you money to sell out your friends. You know, because, as you're 1267 01:43:20.560 --> 01:43:24.640 going to come to find out, Ike clantons, he's a total piece of 1268 01:43:24.680 --> 01:43:28.479 shit. He's only looking out for himself all the time. So Whyatt tells 1269 01:43:28.520 --> 01:43:30.000 him? He's like, listen, dude, I didn't tell Doc anything about 1270 01:43:30.000 --> 01:43:34.119 the payoff. So later that in night, Doc starts noticing, Hey, 1271 01:43:34.119 --> 01:43:38.760 why why is he so fucking weird? Why is he being all nervous and 1272 01:43:38.800 --> 01:43:43.760 panicky? So Whyatt actually tells Doc? Then he's like, Okay, here's 1273 01:43:43.760 --> 01:43:47.439 the deal, here's what happened. So Doc's spending the next few hours drinking, 1274 01:43:47.600 --> 01:43:53.760 playing some cards, and about two hours later, Doc and Morgan are 1275 01:43:53.960 --> 01:43:58.479 pretty much verbally abusing the shit out of Ike Clanton. They're making fun of 1276 01:43:58.560 --> 01:44:01.640 him that you know, they're on them all kinds of names. Ike Clanton 1277 01:44:02.199 --> 01:44:08.560 reaches his boiling point. So at one am, Doc Holliday gets hungry and 1278 01:44:08.560 --> 01:44:13.560 he goes to the Alhambra's eating counter to get some food. Okay, Doc 1279 01:44:13.640 --> 01:44:18.800 and Ike have a confrontation. Now, during this confrontation, Doc is sitting 1280 01:44:18.800 --> 01:44:23.720 there cursing at him, calling him a damned liar and a son of a 1281 01:44:23.760 --> 01:44:27.479 bitch of a cowboy. You know, those are quoted because there's a lot 1282 01:44:27.520 --> 01:44:30.840 of witnesses to this. Clanton pretty much says that, you know, by 1283 01:44:30.880 --> 01:44:35.399 selling information to Wyatt, he was really trying to lure you know, the 1284 01:44:35.479 --> 01:44:40.439 earth Posse into a trap. You know, So he's kind of covering his 1285 01:44:40.600 --> 01:44:43.720 tracks. He's like, listen, the only reason I sold out members of 1286 01:44:43.760 --> 01:44:46.680 my own gang is because I literally was trying to kill Wyatt Earp, which 1287 01:44:47.119 --> 01:44:51.079 it probably wasn't true. You know, he was trying to save some face. 1288 01:44:51.520 --> 01:44:56.680 So Doc Holliday gets even more pissed. Okay, and he had been 1289 01:44:56.680 --> 01:45:01.079 hearing about all the talk about Ike Clanton, saying, hey, you know, 1290 01:45:01.079 --> 01:45:04.079 I clans run around town telling everybody I'm gonna kill the Europe So I'm 1291 01:45:04.119 --> 01:45:08.720 gonna kill Doc Holiday as soon as I see them. So Doc Holiday walks 1292 01:45:08.800 --> 01:45:13.159 up to him, looks I'm straight in the face and quote, I heard 1293 01:45:13.159 --> 01:45:15.640 you're going to kill me. Ike, get out your gun and commence. 1294 01:45:16.239 --> 01:45:21.560 So Doc standard there literally looking at Ike Clanton saying, I heard you're gonna 1295 01:45:21.640 --> 01:45:25.039 kill me. Man, pull out, You're gonna do it right now. 1296 01:45:25.680 --> 01:45:30.640 That pretty much ended the cursing match, and Ike Clanton says, you know, 1297 01:45:30.800 --> 01:45:32.720 hey, I'm unarmed. I have nothing to fight with. So Doc 1298 01:45:33.239 --> 01:45:38.239 Holliday says, go get healed. I'll wait. So he's basically telling Ike 1299 01:45:38.239 --> 01:45:40.319 Clant, go get a gun, dude, I'll wait for you. Come 1300 01:45:40.359 --> 01:45:45.520 on back. So he's sitting there just kind of antagonizing him even further, 1301 01:45:45.439 --> 01:45:50.800 and he tells Ike Clanton that his big mouth is what caused his old man 1302 01:45:50.840 --> 01:45:57.720 to be killed, and that Doc Holiday himself had had the pleasure of pulling 1303 01:45:57.720 --> 01:46:01.840 the trigger and killing him and he would take just as much enjoyment in doing 1304 01:46:01.880 --> 01:46:09.079 the same Tyke. Doc Holliday is known to you know, kind of you 1305 01:46:09.119 --> 01:46:13.920 know, be an instigator, but there's still that speculation that there's a good 1306 01:46:13.960 --> 01:46:17.880 possibility that TyC Holiday was the one who killed his fucking dad. So he's 1307 01:46:17.920 --> 01:46:23.520 in this bar literally just looking this dude straight in the face, like I 1308 01:46:23.560 --> 01:46:26.079 heard you're gonna kill me, man, pull out your gun and do it. 1309 01:46:26.520 --> 01:46:29.279 And to piss I clamping off even more, he tells him he was 1310 01:46:29.319 --> 01:46:31.800 the one who killed his dad and he would enjoy just as much if he 1311 01:46:31.920 --> 01:46:36.359 killed him too. So that's what's going on. Okay, So Virgil or 1312 01:46:36.520 --> 01:46:41.520 who at this time is a US Deputy Marshal, and Wyatt, who's an 1313 01:46:41.520 --> 01:46:45.680 appointed and acting city Marshal, by Virgil, and Morgan, who is also 1314 01:46:45.760 --> 01:46:50.479 a sworn officer. They're all present during this confrontation. That's how we know 1315 01:46:50.560 --> 01:46:56.479 it's so well documented. And yeah, I will say that Whyatt was known 1316 01:46:56.520 --> 01:47:00.840 to speak in favor of Doc Holiday quite a bit. But Virgiler was one 1317 01:47:00.880 --> 01:47:03.800 of the few that one of the few Earb brothers that really didn't care for 1318 01:47:03.920 --> 01:47:09.159 Doc. Like Virgil, Earp was known as you know, a very fair 1319 01:47:09.319 --> 01:47:14.600 guy. So a lot of what he says is true, and he had 1320 01:47:14.640 --> 01:47:16.520 no qualms about saying, hey, listen, I really didn't like the guy. 1321 01:47:16.920 --> 01:47:20.199 He was best friends with two of my brothers. I really didn't care 1322 01:47:20.279 --> 01:47:24.960 for him. You know, he was an all right guy. So when 1323 01:47:25.000 --> 01:47:29.640 he said something, you know, we usually take it as fact. And 1324 01:47:29.880 --> 01:47:33.520 all three of these guys said the same thing. So Virgil tells Doc and 1325 01:47:33.720 --> 01:47:39.239 Ike that he would arrest both of them if they continue the argument. Well 1326 01:47:39.239 --> 01:47:43.119 why it ends up convincing Doc to just go away. You know, He's 1327 01:47:43.159 --> 01:47:45.680 like, just come on with me, man, let's just go back to 1328 01:47:45.720 --> 01:47:48.960 the room. And Whyatt later says, you know, you know, Doc 1329 01:47:49.119 --> 01:47:53.279 was pretty fucking pissed, all right, but he says, you know, 1330 01:47:53.359 --> 01:47:58.920 so was Ike. But Ike wasn't as easily led away by the earps like 1331 01:47:59.119 --> 01:48:02.600 they're trying to leave Dike away. And he's still making threats, you know, 1332 01:48:02.720 --> 01:48:08.680 the whole time, he's talking about killing Doc for the rest of the 1333 01:48:08.800 --> 01:48:13.439 night, up until the early morning hours. Okay, he's saying, quote, 1334 01:48:13.439 --> 01:48:16.640 I promise to kill you when the others come to town. And basically 1335 01:48:16.640 --> 01:48:19.199 he's saying, you know, when my other cowboys come to town, you 1336 01:48:19.199 --> 01:48:25.079 guys are all dead. So Ike runs into Wyatt a little bit later, 1337 01:48:24.840 --> 01:48:29.279 after he had dropped Doc Holiday off at the room. Ike tells him, 1338 01:48:29.319 --> 01:48:33.000 he says, tell your consumptive friend, you're Arizona Nightingale. He's a dead 1339 01:48:33.039 --> 01:48:38.960 man tomorrow. And Wyatt looks at him and he says, don't you tangle 1340 01:48:39.000 --> 01:48:43.680 with Doc Holiday. He'll kill you before you've begun. Ike looks at him 1341 01:48:43.720 --> 01:48:47.199 and says, get ready for a showdown. All right, that's all we 1342 01:48:47.279 --> 01:48:51.760 have for part one. Part two will be out soon enough. I hope 1343 01:48:51.760 --> 01:48:56.720 you enjoyed this, and I can guarantee if you did, you're gonna love 1344 01:48:56.840 --> 01:49:17.079 Part two that much more that Epistas to do this, Spists Stills to do 1345 01:49:17.239 --> 01:50:27.479 this, Spot Stars Stills to do those bass I and I and I